<prompt> Human: First, a little about my situation. I am almost 21, been in school since 18 for a IT Technical support Associates degree. I switched my degree halfway through, so thats why I have been in so long. I have around 15k in college dept, and no other debts. I work full time thirdshift making 11.25 an hour. I am so overwhelmed by the school debt, working 40 hours a week barely making ends meet, going to school full time, and lack of direction in my financial life. I hate what I am studying, and struggling to even pass half my classes. If I buckled down and studied until my brain rotted, Id be done with this degree in two more semesters about.Am I going crazy about nothing? I feel like I am crashing and burning. I have no clue what I want as a career, and I hate blindly throwing money at a degree I dont even want. The only reason I chose this degree was because my parents said go to school, or move out. Being 18 and broke made going to school seem right, now I am second guessing my decision. My parents are of little to no help. They tell me to stick it out with school and Ill be fine. They refuse to understand that I dont want to be in IT, I only had to make a last minute decision to not get kicked out. Since I was born they fed me the idea that Ill be poor and living in a van down by the river if I didnt have a college degree. Guess what? Most my friends are making 50k a year being 21-24 without ever going to school. I just want someone to help me plan my future, at least give me some advice on where to start right now. Baby steps, right? Assistant: OP, as someone who works in IT and I personally love it, if you dislike IT, dont fucking get into it. Our field is flooded right now with people who got into IT because they heard thats where the money is and decided it was for them. If you dont honestly enjoy a thankless, and normally what your average person considers and irrelevant job, to spend countless hours doing nothing, and then spend a couple hours feeling like the entire fucking world is going to war and youre the sole person to fix it, IT is not for you. And we dont want you. Its no offense to you, Im sure youre a great person, who will find their calling, but Im tired of seeing people, young and old, with no aptitude, and no love for IT work, wasting their time, the customers time, the employers time, and their coworkers time. Also, until you really GET into IT, aka into a specialty, there isnt money there, excluding some choice jobs that people never give up. Im 25, Im a Microsoft SCCM Admin, and I just started making over 60yr, and between where I am now after 4 years having moved up quickly and the top? Excluding management, there isnt a huge increase coming my way. Sure, Ill eventually make 6 figures, but it wont happen fast, and it wont happen without continually pushing for more certs, new jobs, and continuous study.Human: This is exactly what I want to avoid. I dont want to be that guy.  <response>: Should also point out that studying IT in college is very unlike working in IT in the field. I design and engineer systems and write programs and procedures to build, use, and support those solutions. Im a specialist in my field and was recently hired to work with a team of people like me with less knowledge and upgrade some large systems.But.In college I studied the theory of IT with professors who had field experience 2 decades too old to be relevant and who thought they were the pinnacle of industry knowledge. I absolutely hated it. I got Ds Fs and graduated with a 2.1 after taking an extra year. If my jobs were anything like college whatsoever theres zero chance Id be in this field. 