In consultations, I often ask: what are you going to do with this degree? Not “what do you want to become?”, but what exactly will you do: where, and for what kind of salary? This is often where a pause appears. Because the choice is usually based on something else:

• I like the subject
• the university ranks highly
• “this profession is in demand”

But there is one thing almost nobody thinks about: will you be able to adapt if something goes wrong? Today, the main risk is not that a profession will be “replaced by AI”. The risk is that someone becomes tied to a single role. And if that role changes, there is nowhere else to go.

In practice, it is quite simple: if you have a narrow set of skills, you depend on one type of work. If your skills are transferable, you have options. So when choosing a future profession, it is important to ask not only “do I like it or not?”, but also:

• what will I actually do every day?
• which of these skills can be transferred elsewhere?
• does this career path have a Plan B?

Interest matters. But it does not protect you from a dead end. Only one thing does: how mobile you are if things do not go according to plan.