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Do what you love and the money will follow is pretty cheap advice. Some people love watching TV all day. I also find it hard to believe that there was absolut

• potatolicious 16y ago
  Not always. Where I went to school, your two choices were: - A stifling engineering program where your employability is excellent ("employment insurance", the article calls it). Every course is a core course, and your load is so heavy that taking anything outside of the precise realm of your degree is academic suicide (not that I didn't try... and almost got me on probation). - A free-form degree where you have a lot of choice in courses across a diverse number of subjects and interests... none of which have the employability and cachet of the former. In other words, you're paying through the nose for something that will have basically no monetary return on investment. As a 18 year-old not hailing from a particularly wealthy family, the choice was pretty simple. There was simply no way to justify dropping that much money on something that will have no financial benefit later. Note: With enough weaseling and planning you can get some breadth in that engineering program, but the extreme academic load meant that you had to limit yourself to bird courses of some intellectual interest. Anything that required "real" work would've ended your shot at an engineering degree pretty quickly.