[culebron]

An irrelevant degree takes some years that you could invest into a working experience, and more importantly, it delays maturity. But it can give you a valuable knowledge (of course, if you earn grades for real things, not for imitating some nonsense). This is hard to learn in everyday life.

I program in Python and earlier was a DB developer, but have an economics masters degree. The most useful thing of this degree was maths and games theory that surprisingly comes to conclusions on things like morale, honesty and dignity, and shows that they're not relative as the classic economics implies.

[corin_]

I've already got four years of (in my opinion quality) working experience, and to be honest I think that most of the overall life-lessons that a music degree could teach me I already have - the biggest reason I want to do it is learning more about the subject, than using it as a way to improve myself in other areas.

(I asked HN more to see if it would give the impression of having improved my other areas, than if it would)