1) Get an education.
2) Get a job.
3) Either (a) work your way up to more responsibilies, or (b) start your own business.
4) Make money, pay taxes, raise a family.
5) Realize that there are too many free-loading bastards in this country (identifiable by how LOUD they complain), so you become a Republican who prefers smaller gov't intervention because they just screw up everything they touch anyways.