Nothing. After I was done with school, the question was "what job do you pick now?". I got a dictionary with a list of jobs that I could be trained for.

My parents said that I "love mathematics and computers, don't you?". Being young, I didn't answer back. So either pharmacist or survey technician. In hindsight, pharmacist wasn't that good a job after an internship.

I was disappointed that in training, we never knew how things actually worked. We only got certain software and then trained in that. Not much knowledge of what the software was actually doing, "it's magic". So I thought, I'm going to teach myself programming in my free time to make up for the stuff I didn't learn.

I got into 3D modeling. I always admired games, but didn't actually want to play any. I just watched lets plays. After a few years of practice, I could made some whacky images using Blender.

My "GIS degree" is a complete joke. The final questions were something like "how would you georeference an image" - answer consisting of "click button a, then button b". I got an A with blazing results for that. It made me feel stupid. All I got was a stupid paper, worth nothing in the real world.

Wanted to work as a 3D Artist, but my parents talked me out of it. In hindsight, it was a good choice, the movie and film industry are very hard to get into. So, off to surveyors. A very surprising fact to me was that is that Blender was used outside of entertainment - many companies do 3D data visualizations and just render it in blender to make a demo for a client. I found a job at a cartography company. But the company was in their last breath, due to many free / cheaper alternatives. And they didn't know what a GIS even was. After a year I quit and thought, hey, why not pick up programming again. So that's where I am now. Currently unemployed, but happier than I could ever be in my previous job.

I would not get back into GIS after learning programming - the wages are simply way lower in GIS. I now know SQL (which they pretty much didn't teach in school), various programming languages (JS, PHP, C++, C, Rust) and related tools (Git, Linux, Postgres). Way better than just learning how to click buttons in Software X. Not saying that it's not important, but picking up Software is fairly easy (for me), given good documentation.

So yeah, that's my story more or less. I can't say that I love GIS, simply because the term is so loosely defined. I never had any interest in GIS specifically, I just sort-of stumbled into it.