<p>DontPanic1- I’ve often wonder the same thing. Another interesting thread would be why did you pick your major back in the day? </p>
<p>I did see it as my door to a career- and in fact my ticket out of my neighborhood- I just didn’t know which career. Maybe mine was a case of being naive. Everyone in my family worked multiple jobs and “made do” without an education so maybe I believed that with a degree I’d have gzillions of options. And with my reference point, I didn’t need or desire to earn very much to feel I’d been successful. </p>
<p>Now with my D, I tell her the same thing. Follow your interests. It will all work out in the end, just not necessarily a known or straight path. She might do something that obviously leads to a job at the end of it- like say computer science- but then even there, she’ll be just as likely to do something entirely different from her undergrad as so many do.</p>