The version I stick by is “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you’ll start hating it”.

Anthropology made me the school bus driver I am today.

Forget majors, get a PhD. You’ll be even less hireable because companies won’t want to pay you more.

Oh it’s hiring alright. If your dad knows people.

Or you’ll need at least 15 years of experience for the unpaid, entry level, 6-month-contract position.

I’m reminded of this girl I met in college, who was a print journalism major. She knew it was a dying field, but she loved it and was dead-set on riding it into the ground.

Damn, thinning about it, her determination and humor as contributor to the student newspaper was hot!

I love programming because it feels like magic.

Couldn’t choose it as a major because everyone wanted it while I was going to college. It was too competitive.

I still learned it, have fun making things. Helping others by making tools. Thought I could get a job in programming because “degree doesn’t matter”.

Now the degree matters a lot because they have plenty with the degree, I think it didn’t matter in the beginning because there weren’t enough people. Now with AI, the people with degree aren’t finding jobs. So no way anyone hiring me.

But because I love programming I still use it on my job. Making tools for clients and internal productivity. Basically working like a software engineer without a software engineer salary because I love it.

So profit??? To the company?

Biochemistry drove me into the Navy.

Heard the same things about passion, and because someone else is always willing to do it for free…