Ask HN: Career Advice for a Directionless Dude?

Currently in my senior year of college. There are a lot of esoteric topics that I just want to self study on my own. I have a year of free time basically so that's all good. But I don't know how to proceed out of college.

Here are some ideas I came up with, but none seem to work when I play them through to the end:

- Industry: I know that if I work hard and smart enough, I will eventually find a project that is interesting, but you can't really call that the same as self studying - I'll always be guided by business needs, I'll inherently gravitate towards certain solutions instead of others, so I lose out on really investing myself into random endeavors.

- Startups: Nope

- Working on the side: I'll probably just get burned out from overworking on two different projects at once

- slacking off: This might actually be viable, but I don't know if this is the move for my personal developemnt lmao

- Grad School: To be honest, even for grad classes I feel bored out of my mind, I don't think lecture formats suit me. But on the other hand, I don't really have a desire to create new knowledge anyways, so I don't think I'd succeed in a PhD (assuming I can even get in lol)

Hopefully the post at least got the feeling across of what's currently going in my head. Given that, what would your advice be for me? Does anybody else feel the same way? What did you do?