I'm going to be a downer but this is honestly how I see the situation. Most jobs that can reliably support you nowadays are very boring, but you are more or les

I'm going to be a downer but this is honestly how I see the situation. Most jobs that can reliably support you nowadays are very boring, but you are more or less stuck with them because it's simply becoming too expensive to live otherwise, especially if you want a family someday. I remember meeting an old artist at college who had gone to NYC for training in his youth. He explained how such an adventure was impossible nowadays, because it's just not possible to afford living in NYC as a young person without money. I won't recommend that you don't pursue your passion, but I will say that if you want to do that, you must be excellent at it, meaning at least in the top 1% of people doing it, if you want to survive financially. That's certainly possible if you put the work in, because most people don't. But you have to be prepared for that. So if you want to do something actually cool, like a college professor or researcher or artist or filmmaker, get ready to work consistently towards excellence, otherwise you won't be happy with the results. Otherwise, go into the most tolerable of the money-making enterprises, like engineering, IT or health care.