Tom Ferrari argues the odds a teenager picks the right degree for their best career are about 0.1%. Most people lack exposure to entire fields like sales, SaaS, or software development. Your degree is a tool, not a blueprint.
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But what's the likelihood that someone at 16 made the right choice to go to college, at 18, 19, made the right decision to do the right degree at university, was brought up in a household where they had full visibility of every potential profession they could do? What's the chances of that? I would say it's 0.1%. And I'm probably the perfect example. I came from a family of teachers. My mom was in primary school, my dad was a secondary school teacher. So, there's definitely a link between myself and coaching, getting into leadership, but there wasn't really the business acumen in the corporate world to know about sales, or SaaS, or software as a particular profession. So, I think it's really important that we sort of dwell on that for a second, that yes, someone can have experience and have learned skills in a particular role, but that's not necessarily the be-all and end-all, because it's quite possible they're not in their best profession.