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mmmmmm pasta.
Choice anxiety is a real scourge, I dealt with it a lot in my late teens and early 20s.
Take the opportunities that you come across, as long as it's anything that you don't find absolutely detestable. It's okay to be uncomfortable, it's okay to be new to something. Follow your whims, but logically: reason through it a little and talk to other people about it before escalating a commitment.
Discover the world by taking part in it on the ground level, and build your familiarity and orientation from where you find yourself, instead of immediately trying to jump to a rung on the career ladder that you'll never see the base/anchoring to. I found this immensely more satisfying and validating than trying to fetishize myself as a such-and-such worker, when I didn't even know what I wanted such-and-such to be, and was overwhelmed by the thousands of options I had.
As long as you do it prudently enough, you can always go back on a choice that you end up not liking. If a job or an organization or even an activity doesn't seem to click with you after a few months, ditch it and move on. Same with people you meet. It's okay to say no if no is what your gut is telling you.
There are no win conditions; it's a sandbox. There is no destiny, there are just lots of paths that can help you paint the picture of your life. You will likely find that these converge into the plot of historical class struggle.