I was originally planning to major in philosophy which would mean my career would either be a philosophy professor (requires a Ph.D and makes like $45k a year,) or something that is completely unrelated to philosophy but requires a liberal arts degree of some sort.

Pretty much, I was heading down a dumb career path.

Now I'm planning on majoring in Chemical Engineering. The place I work at currently has like 3 job openings for chemical engineers(not that they will be open 4 years from now, but that just shows that there are chemical engineering jobs here.) If I work here, I'll get to work on lots of cutting-edge stuff, like fuel cells, stuff like that.

Oh, and with a bachelors in Chemical Engineering, I'll start off making ~$70k a year. I think the average is $69k starting out. Compared to making $45k with a Ph.D in philosophy...