Just marry some fugly sob sister whose daddy left her with lots of money, then going away to find work will become self-motivating.
The game is all about who you know and who knows you, not so much what you know. This anecdote applies to all the good professional jobs.
I sometimes wish I'd stuck with it because only now do I realise just how incredibly privileged I was with my network, alas circumstances dictated I follow another path. Que sera sera.