<p>I might be sorry I post this but here goes. I’m 50 years old and I’ve seen more than one industry fall on hard times. I watched the defense industry down-size in the 80s, I’m aware of two academic fields, (math and English) that became glutted in the 90s. The people who fared the worst were the ones who had too fixed of a notion of what their jobs would be. I knew one person who couldn’t see himself doing any work other than in the defense industry for anything less than $70,000 per year, (remember this was 1990). Things didn’t go well for him. It was the ones who could expand their vision of what they could do and who would settle for a lesser salary than what they had expected to earn who fared better. I also think it is important to note that at the end of the article on page 7 Mr. Wallerstein said that he wasn’t sorry about getting a law degree</p>
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<p>I think a person should study what they are interested in and then not have too set of a fixed idea of what they will be doing down the road. That said, I don’t think anyone should take on too much debt in pursuit of any dream.</p>