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+1000In today's world you can do plenty along the lines of grad school and such even while sailing to keep up.
More importantly, I would suggest an alternate view of life such as "who gives an F about your 'peer group'".
I would suggest one define their own success in furtherance of their own happiness instead of worrying about keeping up with their "peer group".
After a few years your peer group will be clawing their way into lower management or stashing away what they can for a house and you can send them pics from around the world, or not send pics from your lucrative port management gig, or maybe not give them a thought and follow the path you choose between now and then. If keeping up with your classmates is that important then you should definitely move to a cool sounding yet outrageously expensive city, get a job you kind of don't like, run up some credit card debt and create an impossible Instagram page to make the rest of the AP Calc BC class feel like they're behind. Hurrah you've won, something, maybe. The sooner you can set your own goals and standards the happier you'll be.