So don’t try to please the mob. Learn history and philosophy, and enjoy it. If anyone asks, tell them you need history and philosophy because that’s what the National Security Agency recommends for their most secret operatives. For all I know, this is true.

You’re doing the right thing. Education isn’t job training. What it does is immunizes you from spending your life being bored, scared, and fooled by every charlatan who comes along. Just keep at it, and know that there are those who understand perfectly.

But it doesn’t hurt to start looking at your possible options after graduation either, and trying to put yourself in a good position. That doesn’t make your desire for knowledge any less noble. As someone who graduated with a psychology degree and ended up doing crummy near-minimum-wage customer service jobs after graduation, I guess I wish I’d thought ahead a little more while still in school. Maybe I could have taken advantage of a work exchange program or gotten to know professors and found a way to get research experience or something like that that would have helped me start an actual career. It was disappointing to have learned all that stuff in college and find myself sitting next to high school dropouts doing the same boring job. Eventually I went back to school with a more utilitarian mindset.

I think your outlook on things is pretty great, especially the fact that you look at college as a way to become educated. Most people think of it only as a necessary step if you want to succeed in life, where success is measured by how much money you make and nothing else.

Keep doing what you’re doing and change your major if you think it’ll be better for you. Good luck!