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It has to be finance. Finance + CS or Finance + Math just opens up both Wall St and Tech as well as consulting to the individual.

But otherwise, trades. It is a serious path to money and ultimately starting your own business.

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After 4 years as an apprentice digging ditches by hand, if you got lucky enough to find a company that would hire someone fresh out of school (because none of them hire fresh off the street without some kind of related experience).

Lol if I had a job manually digging ditches id negotiate a per foot rate which would be far cheaper than my manual labor cost then finance a backhoe or trencher and make bank. Having digging jobs lined up is like a money printer win-win if the boss got that many.

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