Sometimes in life having no choices but one choice is a good thing. My sis listened to my parents and majored in bioengineering at berkeley. She hated it and almost flunked out. transfered to econ… Got a bunch of odd jobs over the summer, nothing major. Had only one interview for a full time job while job hunting. She got the offer and took it because she had no other options… ended being an investment banking at one of the big firms paid crap, but ended up doing M&A so it turned out good. Fast forward to today…same sibling got screwed over by a few companies, including last one who let her go, we think because they found out she was going on maternity…since it wasn’t performance related, since she was top performer. Was juggling kids and tried to reenter workforce and again got only one offer from a tiny company that allowed her to work at home… That company just IPOed this last month.

One of my younger cousin was in a similar boat. Wasted dad’s money and half way through medical school decided she hated it, lol. Switched into finance and got one interview with one job at the almost failing Barclays, when everyone else was jumping ship. She had no options, so stuck with it. Today she’s a Managing Director there…Funny how life screwups always end up working itself out in the long run.