I first went to college in 2002 intending to pursue an engineering degree. At some point before I started school my dad (who had learned programming in the 90s

I first went to college in 2002 intending to pursue an engineering degree. At some point before I started school my dad (who had learned programming in the 90s but never did it professional) told me he thought I'd enjoy a programming career and I should think about switching majors. I dismissed it as teenagers tend to do with their parent's advice. Ended up dropping out of school and drifting through my 20s without much to show for it because I didn't know what I wanted to do. It wasn't until 2012 that I went back to school for CS. Can't help but think about how different things might be if I'd gone into the "right" major from the start and entered the industry making a decent salary 8-9 years earlier. But realistically I was a very different person 20 years ago, and just changing my college major probably wouldn't have fixed the things that prevented me from being successful the first time around.