I think I’ve decided what to do with my work confusion situation. Thanks to very good advice from a friend and dad recently.

• Money really doesn’t matter that much. I can live off what I learn and I will always have a back-up (ha, shamefully, my parents). There is a time in life where you do need to earn enough money, now isn’t the time.
• There’s no other time in life where I can experiment with different sectors and fields that I’m interested and curious about. If I’m really going to go back to agriculture/food systems in the end, now’s the time to have fun and explore.
• It’s better to learn from good managers (or at least generally good managers) than to jump into the deep end of management and hope that I won’t drown. It’s not like that hasn’t happened before. I survived, but a bit traumatized.
• If I’m learning a ton and only “manageably unhappy,” stick with the job for at least six months to see if it’s worth staying longer.
• Staying in one city/country for 3 years isn’t going to pigeonhole me to a region for the rest of my life.

So that’s all the drama for now.