This is kinda hard to answer without knowing your situation. I mean if you could get into harvard could you cover the cost? So basically everyon has a limited set of options to follow. Even given that I can say I knew I wanted to be a science major based on my high school grades and fascination with how viruses replicate from the whirling blender experiment. I intended to do research and teach. I graduated but did not get through a PhD so that was out. I then worked in industry and found it really did not pay the bills well enough. Im lucky to have tech be this thing which almost anyone could do at the time if you were good with that stuff and make decent cash (you could say that its this way now but its really not the same). I worked in the field but with some serial unemployment but the only significant amount was in relation to the housing market crash. Now however im older and unemployed for over 2 years. So. Anyway. I guess im saying is you make choices from your options and even then things can go all over the place. Im glad I got a good liberal arts and sciences education because I kinda like learning. Im glad I did tech because you have to learn all the time. If I lived in a better society I think I would be generally happy. I sometimes think of things I could do different but I also see it pretty much going the same way really or not as its all kinda a roll of a die.