It's hard to blame high school kids for this failure, though. I don't know what's changed in the last 25 years, but when I was in high school, this was not a to

It's hard to blame high school kids for this failure, though. I don't know what's changed in the last 25 years, but when I was in high school, this was not a topic of discussion. There was an expectation that you would go to college, that you were to choose from a list of majors, and whatever you chose, someone apparently would be waiting for you to walk out of your graduation ceremony to offer you a job in that field. I knew many people in college that seemed to still have this idea in their senior year. They had given absolutely no thought to the employment process and how the degree in their chosen major was going to help or hinder. Even though it should have been very obvious to me that I should do something with computers, in high school I decided I wanted to be a physicist because it "sounded fun". It took me 2 years of college to realize I was terrible at it, and there were absolutely zero career prospects on the other end of that degree. It seemed I was destined to make coffee for a PHd for the rest of my life for maybe $20k a year. Then one day I was writing some code after school like I'd done every day of my life, and the lightbulb turned on and I felt pretty stupid about it. Luckily 2 years into a physics major is a good time to switch to comp sci. But who is handing out the correct advice to young people today? Is it getting to them? Are they processing it?