I graduated as a mechanical engineer in 2020. And quit it before looking for a job. Did 2 internships in college. Too stressful while making peanuts, also depressing, it’s not the creative shit anymore, engineers are more of maintenance people and process improvement at most companies especially entry level. I’m going for CFA to work in asset management, and I’m in real estate (family business), my dad started with $60k in cash in 2016, now we dozens of units worth 8 figures from fix and flipping, and my dad doesn’t even have a college degree, he been doing real estate for a long time along with starting small businesses (a pizza store, alteration store..) but went bankrupt twice in 2008 and 2015. You learn from failures I guess and not giving up. The money is in Finance (MBA, CFA positions...), real estate (which is part of finance) and business venturing (starting ur own business). Nothing else literally.