> > Yes, but unless you're completely failing, why would you? I think it'd be better to stick it out and get your degree, and then go back to school later to do something else if you really end up not liking or just not being any good at what you first chose to do.
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> I agree wholeheartedly. I still wonder if I would be more suited to a creative, right-brained sort of career, but I certainly can't complain about the way things have turned out. If I'd dropped engineering when I really seriously thought about it, I'd still be in school right now, and probably so deep in debt that I'd be eating Kraft Dinner daily (just like what happened when I was still in school).

Another vote for staying with it, from me. When you're that close to finishing your degree, it would be a seriously stupid move to waste all the time, effort and money you've already expended on it. *Especially* since you also say you love the subject. When in doubt, I think you should always choose the subject you are most passionate about. If you end up getting a job in that field, you will most likely have a wonderful life, and if it turns out you cannot make a good career out of it, you still have the benefit of having spent several years learning about something you enjoy.

I agree with what Dave said. There's no law against going back to do a different degree later in your life, after you've been working a while.

When you're still at university you really have very little perspective on just how much of your life is still ahead of you, and how much time you have to do all sorts of different things. I didn't realise it until I'd finished one degree and had been out in the workforce for a few years.

I have a friend who did a four-year civil engineering degree and then spent the next few years working on oil rigs and oilfields everywhere from the Australian outback to Asia. Then she decided this wasn't her true interest after all, and went back to study veterinary medicine. She is now most of the way through that degree, and intends to open a clinic specialising in dogs. You can *do* things like that if you want to, so finish your degree and don't throw it away in the mistaken belief that it will trap you for life in that line of work.