I scour Reddit A LOT. One subreddit I thoroughly enjoy engaging in is “r/findapath.” In this subreddit, young people are redundantly asking three formations of the following questions:

How do I get a job (I enjoy) that gets me out of my parents’ house?

How do I gain experience when I have no time?

Which career should I choose?

These are really important questions, and it got me thinking about how I could help my underemployed peers.

Truth is, there are a lot of different ways to get a well-paying job you love. Most job hunting advice comes from people our parents’ age — “career experts” — who are far from “in your shoes.” Some of their tips work in one instance or another. Others just don’t.

Let me tell you a bit about me.

I’m a Millennial, who not too long ago, was waiting tables 40+ hours per week in my hometown. I had just dropped out of college because I couldn’t support myself and was forced to move in with my dad. Talk about a shitty situation.

Flash forward six months.

In this short amount of time (that felt like dragged on forever) I negotiated a $72,000 salaried marketing director position and $3,000 in relocation assistance, which moved me to Boston, the land of opportunities.

(Since then, I’ve gone out on my own, and today, I’m in the top one percent of millennials.)

Of course all of my friends wanted to know one thing — How I pulled this off.

Important Insight: These are the high level bullet points. The big picture of what I would do if I woke up one morning in my former unhappy and underemployed self’s cute flip flops and long dresses. I had no contacts. I had little professional experience. Just a roof over my head, free meals and a good head on my shoulders.

With that being said, this is my story of what I would do to move out of my pop’s house and on with a career that isn’t less than what I have to offer.