You have an excellent point. And all this advice to graduates really has to depend on what the person wants to do and how they want to do it.
The individual maker/consultant/contractor model of living is fine.
Then there is the model where you employ other people to do things for you and leverage their skills (and your risk) to get more money. For obvious reasons that can't work for everyone but it is a very reasonable plan for some people.
And finally you can be part of someone else's business. This can actually be a very rewarding thing. My point to prove this is that we could not have placed men on the moon without a massive organisation with a lot of people following other peoples plans.
Blanket advice just smothers individuality. We don't need simple solutions today.
The individual maker/consultant/contractor model of living is fine.
Then there is the model where you employ other people to do things for you and leverage their skills (and your risk) to get more money. For obvious reasons that can't work for everyone but it is a very reasonable plan for some people.
And finally you can be part of someone else's business. This can actually be a very rewarding thing. My point to prove this is that we could not have placed men on the moon without a massive organisation with a lot of people following other peoples plans.
Blanket advice just smothers individuality. We don't need simple solutions today.