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Howdy! I have crossed the 60 line. So I have seen some of what you mention :)
Rest assured: "No one has everything figured out!" Never. Some are talking in compelling sentences. But there are those, who can say something like "in my little world it works like so, but maybe that's not the whole story". It never is "the whole story". And nothing can travel faster than light!
And: "I don't need to know everything, in order to know something!" I snatched that from an Introduction to Philosophy and it has been helpful many times.
"work" in my opinion is a deal. I get so much units_of_currency for so much units_of_labor/braincycles. Now where exactly a balance is struck, that is up to myself at least partly. And I'd like to have a dry and safe place to sleep and connect to the net and to others in real life. I'm lucky though: I found a niche of interest, the details are all boring for others, and I get paid to know and act about all these dull details. In other words, choose something and get good at it. Getting there is work, as has been pointed out. But for all the detail-dullness involved --- I like that I can juggle these puzzle pieces and create magic stuff. I like them details, even after 27 or so years. :)
Another thing that I find helpful: Advertisement and its siblings will tell you in no uncertain terms, that you are missing out on so much! Now! Always! They want to make you run and collect all of this and more --- to their advantage, not yours! So once I accepted, that yes, I'm constantly missing out 1-\epsilon of options all the time, however, that does not proof that very small \epsilon, the stuff I'm actually doing, is bad. Not at all. If I decide to waste a complete afternoon researching an obscure detail, or with a nice person having an interesting conversation, or with viewing a sun set ... so it'll be. I enjoy the \epsilon and leave the rest to others. At the very least this makes for a calmer life.
Crossing 55 had made me realize, that my health is finite. So one last unsolicited advice: If you have something important on your list, do it at the earliest time you can possibly afford it. You may not be able to pursue this action/thing/whatever later.
Ah, and by all means: wear sun screen! :)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/06/01/advice-like-youth-probably-just-wasted-on-the-young-2/