I'm a bit older, but my whole life teachers pounded into our heads "go to college" and get any degree. My dad was denied a management position purely because he had no degree (any degree at all would have been enough and he would have got it), so what they said wasn't necessarily wrong, but it was reckless and has led to a lot of hindered lives. I was sorely disappointed when I graduated with my marketing degree and it didn't matter to anybody. I went back and got a CS degree, so I'm ok now, but I did miss the first few years of my kids' lives working full time to support them and also doing a CS degree in evenings and weekends for 4 years. It would have been much better to have just done the CS degree. I am a little bitter.
