Learn from your bipolar issues and mistakes when you work. When I graduated from college I was thinking work and you think you will get a job and that will be it. It does not happen like that, you will probably be working three or four times as long as you were in college and that sort of off and on thing will happen with different jobs and situations all through your life. That's okay! I changed major when I was in college (my junior year) and graduated in a totally different subject than I was "supposed"/wanted to and spent over 7 more years in my 50s getting a second degree in the original subject. I then started graduate school and dropped out when I was almost 60. You will have many jobs and maybe go to school more times, etc. so what I would do is not get too attached to or worried about any one job or decide you are a failure or "wrong" or "bad" or a problem until you have had at least 20-30 more years of working at Life

I'm in school again now, a diploma course, and it is right where I want to be.