Pick a job - any job

The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education - a.k.a. Högskoleverket - recently released as listing over the educations to pick if you want a job. I just wanted to give you my 0.05 EUR.

There are two problems with this list:

#1 If you are not interested in teaching or engineering - you will probably never be a good teacher or engineer. Only use the list if you want to pick a flavor - for example what kind of engineer that you want to be or at what level you want to teach.

#2 You are not the only one watching these lists. During the IT-boom everybody wanted to be an IT engineer. That meant that the backlash when the industry collapsed was unnecessary hard. By not going with the flow and instead pick something that you are genuinely interested in you are more likely to be able keep your job when bad times come. And bad times come now and then - if nothing else, that is something to learn from history.