People pick degrees based on the advice of counselors who seem to know of 8 kinds of job, and half of them are not something you can advise a kid in a striving high school to follow (binman, factory worker, etc) .
It's actually nuts how people will do an internship and then decide this is the thing they want to do. Or they get a visit from someone at school and now they're gonna be an author.
If there's one thing we need in society, it's experiential information about jobs.
For instance I've known many people who went into management consulting. None of them think it has any value. If I was a kid I'd want to know that.
Accountants come across many types of business and are employable in many types of firms. The job is closer to a lawyer than many people expect, esp irl to tax. Your math degree is minimally useful.
Recruiters talk to people all day and are paid in proportion to the salary of the placed person.
Anyway those are just jobs that I don't do, and I know a tiny bit about them through contact with real world people.
Kids need these contacts.
In case anyone is wondering, I didn't become a Ninja Turtle.
I don't know why it's different for some people, but it is. I have to think it's something we just don't put emphasis on in our education system or by parents. So pop culture does it for us. When I was a kid everyone wanted to be someone famous; a singer, an athlete, an actor, etc. Today is no different, everyone wants to be an influencer, a streamer, etc.
I think we need to make it a point for kids to understand from a young age that not everyone can be the famous person, neither should everyone want to be. There are so many other options, they only want fame because they don't know anything else.