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Also to add onto the other discussion, specialized skills are no guarantee that you'll always have a job, just that you might have a job for a while after school. A friend of mine just finished nursing because everyone is bemoaning on how we don't have enough nurses and she couldn't find a job with just a BS (and to be fair her mom's a nurse and she finds it fascinating, she did end up enjoying it), but as soon as she graduated, they announced a hiring freeze on nurses and she had to move out to the boonies to find any work. My dad went to college for computer repair, and it was great for years, but now since he couldn't keep up with the changes in computers over the years pretty much all he can do is fix bank and debit machines. They tried to lay him off but then they brought him back on as a contractor, so he only gets paid when the people who own the machines feel like paying their bill. Its still good money but its not solid pay.
And then there's all the people here who went to trade school because everyone keeps telling us it guarantees us a job, but it also means slaving away in the tar sands :/
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