[codingdave]

Education improves your capabilities even if you don't work directly on what you studied. I have a degree in Fine Arts. I spent many years as a coder, then moved into product leadership. My Art degree has helped every step of the way, as it taught me a creative process, how to look at the structure and details of how things are created, how to understand people based on what they create, and other such things that sound wishy-washy but did have a positive impact on how I approach software development.

So I would expect your CS education to likewise offer value in non-CS industries. You may have to put some thought into exactly what you learned other than the face-value bullets points in the curriculum, and then focus on how you can apply them to your new industry. But you don't need to feel that the work and time was wasted.

[screwturner68]

My parents were college professors, English teachers, and two things they kept pounding into my head all my life was to one, learn to write a sentence and two, college is not there to teach you a trade it's there to expand your mind. I think it's unfortunate that companies feel that they no longer have to invest in their employees and teach them the job, they have pushed this off on the employees. Sadly, people think college will teach them a job and except for a few degrees Medicine, Law, Engineering it doesn't.