No matter where you go to college, odds are that you’re hoping to find a job after graduation. Many high school students view that inevitability in one of two extremes—now or later.

“Now” sounds like this:

“I need to pick my future career now so I can choose the right college and major.”

“Later” sounds like this:

“I don’t know what I want to do for a career. I’ll figure it out later after I graduate from college.”

I’d like to propose a third option that combines those two:

“I need to learn as much as I can now, so I can have my choice of exciting career options later.”

If you already know what you want to do with your life, you’re comfortably in the “now” camp. But if you’re like many seventeen-year-old college-searchers and you don’t know today what you want your career to be four or five or ten years from now, that’s OK. Don’t pressure yourself to pick prematurely.

But don’t assume that career planning begins after you graduate from college. Instead, use college as career prep. Here are some suggestions of how to do that.

The more you do now, the more options you’ll have later.