What Guarantees Survival in the World these days

A few decades ago a college degree was enough to give you good paying jobs then a master's degree was quite rare. Nowadays a master's degree is very common a lot of college students end up jobless or getting jobs not related to their respective bachelor's degree. Bottom line is a college education nowadays cannot guarantee you to a good life. I call this age the age of entrepreneurs and freelancers where they can juggle multiple jobs at once or employ themselves,  very versatile people open to almost any sort of challenge. Lately