The number of people I saw after college who didn’t get a degree in their field but instead got the first low paying job they could was very high. Many of them went on to stay in meaningless low paying jobs or work their way up the job ladder from a low position with no benefit for the degree.

The further I went into school the more important it was to me to get a job in my field, it ultimately led to the job I am into today. I am at the same company (I took a signifcant paycut at the time almost 40% to move from a job not directly related to my field to one that was) that I was hired from my junior year of college and am very happy.