It is my case as well, and funny enough I came out of my MA with similar thoughts. The first story I wrote on Edgeryders when I was 24 had a lot to do this problem of preparing in the University and considering an academic role - but somehow it wasn’t coming together. But the irony is: I was still so young that I kept focusing on what I needed to do, and how I needed to chase opportunities, and how I did’t know where to go, as if the system was dislocated from me.
All this is also a nice throwback to @rebecca who at the time was saying similar things and now is an accomplished academic haha 
Needless to say, now the story looks different. But the struggle itself looks the same.
Again, indigo But enough with the guilt of priviledge, I was told by many to stop with it and dare to ask for more.
If our mottos in life were something along the lines of… 'good things come to those who work dilligently… ’ it’s time to upgrade them, because life rewards other skills - like you say, networking, flexibility, adaptiveness And here is where we stand to win, Maria.
Or so I think.