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Don't drop out; you'll spend your whole career trying to push open closed doors (it gets easier with many years' experience or during an acute skills drought, but the issue never goes away completely).

Study whatever you enjoy most. It'll be easier for you to excel that way, and you'll still get the all-important degree.

Once you get your career underway, continue to learn and work on whatever interests you most; be prepared to continually learn and adapt over the decades. New technologies and ideas will come along that haven't been imagined yet, while some of the stuff you study at uni will be surprisingly relevant later.

Best of luck!



As you get older, it gets harder to learn new stuff.




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