Where do I look for answers?
Yourself. Life is what YOU make it. Do some research. Trust your instincts. Be honest, be greedy. What would you want to do as a grown ass man? Take aim at that, launch that arrow and go pick it up. When your 80 looking back on your life, you will be laughing.
My dream life is to tattoo, make music and train Martial arts. Maybe also own a lounge. I started with tattooing cause it was the first thing I could get my hands on and can fund me getting an MPC and pay for my Martial Arts classes. Then I can go to school for architecture or business and build a lounge off my clientele strength.
Your not going to be ready for the bigger stuff now, so put that last. Start with the first thing that will teach you the discipline to learn the rest. You like cars, maybe you can start with being a mechanic. Then move into import/exporting cause you have experience in travelling. Idk what you can do or are
willing to do, or are best suited to, only you know that. Mastery by Robert Greene lays all this out pretty well.
The fact that you WANT to do something more while your friends just drink their lives away is already the first and biggest step. So don't doubt your success. There is no path laid out before you, you have to make it yourself. Your not a robot. They have their plans laid out for them. Study up and read alot. Just because your not in school does NOT mean you stop learning.Your life isn't an automatic car, it's manual. Gear Up.
The Trap God is with you.