>>509630295 (OP)>careerIs a magic word to get you waste hundreds of extra hours unpaid, for the possibility, mere possibility, that you get a raise which will not even keep up with cost of living. If you want to get the best deal in life in anything (work, women, even buying things) you have to be willing to walk away. If someone knows they have you by the balls you will tend to get the short end of the stick, that's just how most people are. Throw away your time for some made up job title at your peril.
>im worried that im not doing what i must be doing and that im wasting time in something thats not meant for meYou may not even know what's meant for you until you actually try it. When you're young, you need to accept that you don't actually have a lot of experience and that your best guesses (based on that limited experience) are likely to be wrong. Accept it. The worst thing you can do with your youth is waste it doing something that you know you shouldn't be doing because you're afraid to try something new.
A man can recover from his mistakes. If it's not going to kill you, don't sweat it. You're not on as short a clock as women are. You don't need the same levels of risk aversion and "playing it safe". A lot of people, including your own parents, will want to give you the "safe" advice because they still see you as their child and want to protect you. But sometimes a man needs to just be a man and take some (calculated) risks, which may involve things like change profession, try self employment for a few years, or even just travel on his own and try to make a name for himself. These all seem "risky" from the perspective of people who would rather you do as they did or who are just not wanting to worry themselves.
Always navigate your life in a careful and calculated way. Calculate the upside and downside of important decisions. Sometimes the safest choices carry regrets. Pick the path of least regret with calculated and acceptable risk.