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I had great mentors early in my career. They taught me how to shoot, how to direct, how to lead a crew.

Nobody taught me about CPAs, retirement accounts, or what freelancing in this business does to your financial life over 30 years.

This industry doesn't run on a calendar. No HR department, no automatic 401k, no pension. Everything has to be built by you, usually while you're too busy working games to think about it.

I wrote about the two relationships I'd tell anyone starting out to build early — and why the things that feel the least urgent at 22 are often the things that matter most at 50.