Excellent comment. I always find it infuriating when someone says "I have a college degree" without specifying the major. What does it mean you have a degree?

Excellent comment. I always find it infuriating when someone says "I have a college degree" without specifying the major. What does it mean you have a degree? A degree in what? Farming? Psychology? Pet sitting? Mathematics? What can you actually do? I would amend your last advice with "... and if the lucrative career doesn't need a degree, don't go to college at all, learn a useful trade, don't get in debt for nothing and start making money right away doing something useful".