Ponderings on important future things

So I troll around ONTD_Political a lot and more and more I'm being drawn into the various terrifying articles about people who go through school and come out with no prospects and end up deeper in debt with nothing to show for it. And that kind of terrifies the shit out of me.

I know what my dream jobs are. I want to write stories with more representation for various minorities. I want to go into media studies to examine prejudice. I want to learn ASL and work against ableism.

All nice thoughts, but all pretty pipedreamy.

I need a bankable talent if I don't want to be poor forever. I'm likely going to talk to my friend who's successfully started up his own business being a roaming IT guy for whatever company needs help and ask him about how he got into that. I have a decent affinity for computers and could probably make something of that.

Career folks, what fields are you in? How's the job market for them?

God, living in this country is depressing as fuck.