I was just thinking about this today, my cousin and I each have similar stories. I tripped from English Lit to tax accounting/corporate finance, and then to QA in SFCC. I just converted from tempt to hire, testing Salesforce core apps at a national non-profit making over $90k. It's the most interesting but the least demanding work of my career, and I can't believe I followed this path by chance. My cousin discovered she liked data analysis, and now works with SF for a company, making over $125k, and she doesn't even have her college degree (I have no ill feelings for or against college graduates, it's just an impressive feat in today's culture to excel in the tech industry without a post-secondary degree).