Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: C2, field of study: Informatique et lectronique)

I have never really given any thought to the reasons behind many of my professional choices. I mostly just go with the flow and hope for the best. This approach seems to have worked so far as I end up doing mostly what interests me at a given moment, and I therefore never have to "soldier on" through my work life.
However, if I had to give a real solid reasons as to why I chose to study statistics, I'd say that is because I really like maths, and they require no physics. When one has to study sciences in Paris, physics is often a requirement, and I abhor physics. Therefore I chose a subject that still had maths involved, a real-world application that would guarantee a job outside of academia (fat lot of good that did) and had no physics at all. Here are stats !
In a final note, I will say that in spite of studying maths and stats, I still ended up taking a deep interest in computers and ended up a computer science PhD without any real academic training. But I still like what I do !