I think you are missing a step in my guide to success as an FRC Alum:
- Join a team
- Enjoy being on a team
- Do robot things with your friends
- Do better in school
- Get into a great college
- Go to said college
- Profit.
- Give back to what got you there.
From my analysis, you are somewhere between step 6 & 7. We all like to do well at robots and try our best to win. In real life, there are lots of ways to win and way more design constraints than just R26 or the rest of the Manual. Know what you can do, talk to some other people, create a product, launch a business and grow the world's economy. Clearly there are skills learned in FIRST that people can make at least a
few bucks off of. Heck, you might even solve a few problems that Dean hasn't gotten around to yet.