me_irl

that “get a degree so you can get a job” mentality that our parents and parents parents touted is advice from an era gone by

My parents actually stressed the liberal arts idea that you go to college to learn how to learn and that it doesn't really matter what you major in. I respect their viewpoint even more now because they paid the absurd tuition at my liberal arts college. In my case, however, it really did cost me professionally. I ended up becoming a computer programmer, and while I was indeed quite capable of learning whatever I needed to learn to do any particular task, I was hamstrung by my lack of a degree in Computer Science proper.