I am not saying that I am smart. But I will say that I regret having gone into law. Regret is too strong of a word. I don't regret it. Law is fun and you can m

I am not saying that I am smart. But I will say that I regret having gone into law. Regret is too strong of a word. I don't regret it. Law is fun and you can make a lot of money. Who doesn't like that? But, I had been dissuaded from getting a CS degree at university. It was partly because my dad was a SWE for one of the big ones when I was young, and I was a rebellious kid who could be swayed away from something I loved in part by not wanting to be like him. And, like I said, law was a field where I could make a lot of money. Back then, I didn't realize that I could have done CS without being like him. Rather, I regret it because I could have spent these years doing something that I loved. Anyway, I am rectifying that now by doing a masters in cognitive science with a goal of researching human curiosity and building curious machines. In other words, I am trying to rectify the error I made the first time around where I went into something for reasons other than because I really wanted to. I would also note that way way way too many not-smart people go into law and finance, as well. But I'm not sure there is much you can do about that.