It's not about good or bad times. All compasses are broken so any particular direction you believe you are walking deliberately might as well be uniformly random.

"Direction" and "design" are probably the wrong metaphors for careers.

I think it is better for your mental health to see yourself as having some agency. You certainly have some, though how much we can debate. But saying something like "all compasses are broken" sounds so defeatist that I worry you are experiencing depression.