[bumby]

"Often it is inertia rather than greed that is the driving force behind choosing these majors and careers (although we might assume high beginning salaries would also have something to do with it). Rather than risking the loss of the praise that their psyches have, at this point, been conditioned to need, students lose themselves in the pack and follow a well-worn path. They play it safe. They feel almost forced to choose a career that isn’t “beneath” them" [1]

I think that risk-aversion is part of what keeps people from choosing what they really want to do.

[1] https://academyedstudies.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/jonesro...