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Comment author: [deleted] 21 May 2014 10:27:17PM 2 points [-]

It was a blind spot that I had until my senior year of college, when I realized that I wanted to make a lot of money, and that it was very unlikely that majoring in philosophy would let me do so. Had I realized this at 12-14, I would've saved myself a lot of time; but I didn't, so I'm probably going to have to go back for another degree.

If you don't care about money or you have the connections to succeed with a non-STEM degree, that's another thing. But that's not the question that was asked.