Hey kids, want to experience the excitement and thrill of what it would be like to break all the rules and bring the world to heel as an awesome supervillain? Of course you do! So what should you do next? Mug a bystander? Maybe go more subtle and do some securities fraud or embezzlement? Or perhaps you're the cyber type and extort people with malware or bitcoin scams? Or just skip all of that and use your genius to concoct some dubious experiments that would instantly give you powers?
No. You go work in a coffee shop and grind.
"Welcome to the real world, jackass!" --Captain Buzz Killington, archnemesis of supervillains everywhere