>>No one had given her the advice to pick a job she liked and was good at, instead of studying what she “loved” and expecting to get paid well for it.<<
It is no joke that if you work at what you love you will never work a day in your life.
I just am finishing some, well let us say under-likeable things I need to do. But the creative juices flow, the idea that people will be working from what I have done, the idea I have placed my imprimatur on what I have done is enough to overcome what is, at 1 AM, pretty much exhaustion.
But tomorrow I CODE!!!!! (I hope)
When the passions are obscure liberal arts, music and philosophy, getting a degree in those areas is a deep load of dumb debt.