If you go on to study, not only is your degree choice important, but so is your first serious job after graduation. This point can often be missed.
I know this guy, he was nice, smart, good worker, studied engineering and while a uni student got a part time job in an engineering company that specialized in safety audits or something like that. Great part time job for a student, payed well and looked good on the CV. When he graduated, was offered a pay rise and a full time position, which he accepted because it was easy and he wanted to earn some money to travel. Promotion and another pay rise followed.
Few years later be resigned on good terms to travel, as per the original plan. In another city applied for many "real" engineering jobs, but was always beaten by somebody with more experience in the field. Yet he could walk into a safety job any day of the week. Money low, back to safety audits to pay the bills, even though he wanted to be a real engineer and make things or solve problems. Fast forward 20 years and he has only ever worked in the safety field.
It's not a bad field, but it isn't the field he wanted. With wife and kids his hand was often forced by the need to pay bills.
Another mate at Uni studied Drama, wanted to be an actor. He also studied computing as a safety net. He got a computing job to save some cash while looking for acting work. Many years on, he has never acted professionally and he told me "my safety net became a spider web that entangled me".
I think people should follow their interests with a passion and live the life they want to live.