The simple fact is that I'm an English major because I like to read. I don't like to balance accounts, I don't like drawing little pictures of mouse traps I might build, and I don't like the idea of being in big business. We, no doubt like accounting, engineering or business majors, are doing something because we like it. We like Descartes, we like movies, we like psychoses, we like Marxism, and we like paintings. Leave us alone.
Old people have careers.
Your parents have careers. I may retire when I'm 65. If I had gone for that lovely drafting job, I'd be out of school by the time I was 20, and work for 45 years. I'd be free just in time for my body to start falling apart. Sounds like fun.