Nice. I'd add the following. Follow you talents and expand them to their natural maximums. Use them to make the money that pays for your passions. And if the choice is to take a job or stay for the boy/girl? Take the job.
A friend and I have been talking about something along these lines. We're both young, untethered by relationships, and with skillsets that aren't geographically limiting. Lately the thought of how much of the world and country is out there has come up, and taking on new or different jobs for the sake of seeing other parts of the states. It almost feels like change for the sake of change but I think there's more to it than that. I'm not sure how much clarity there is in the above, but I was going to ask your thoughts on the subject.
Four people in my life have made this choice. Two chose the girl, two chose the job. Of the two that chose to stay both got divorced, one killed himself. N=2 is not a good sample size so take that for what you will. The two that chose the job are both doing OK; the introvert is having a bit of a trouble making a new social network, but the internet lets him stay in contact with the old network. Both of the men that chose to leave left a relationship for a job that made more than twice the median, both men left to pursue "dream" jobs that only come around once or twice a lifetime if you are lucky. N=2 is not a good sample size so take that for what you will. You will only be young and untethered once in your life. If given the chance to move and get to experience a new part of the world, and not have to live like a hobo, why not? I went and worked my ass of in Alaska. Another person in my life moved all the way across the country to go to a community college to get the hell away from a toxic family; once the mental energy of that nonsense was off his shoulders he flourished. You also have the bonus of taking a friend with you. Going out and doing stuff is a lot easier with someone at your side, right? Where I am now gets a lot of 'boomerangs' for lack of a better word for it. These are people who said "this place sucks" went out and worked or went to school elsewhere then discovered that the Ohio Valley is not really all that bad and came back with some life experiences, fun stories, skills, a different outlook on work and family and seemed at least to me to come back a better person. Travel opens the mind, and if nothing else working in a different state or country for a few years will give you some good stories to open with at gatherings. I'm still introduced as "the insane guy who worked on a boat in Alaska" to new people in the friend group.We're both young, untethered by relationships, and with skillsets that aren't geographically limiting.
It almost feels like change for the sake of change but I think there's more to it than that.