Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.
I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.
