Not sure your question is relevant to a forum on which members are supposed to have a burning desire to trade (probably Forex). My answer gives you the benefit of a 50 year working career.
I am sure you have seen the Apprentice (either Alan Sugar’s UK version that he plagiarised from Trump or the USA version with Donald Trump). That is a good example of how it does NOT work in real life, much the same as thinking if you just “get a degree in economics” and somehow get sucked up into the trading machine by big trading houses. I am from the fortunate generation that did not have to pay for their UK university education, and could get a job by just turning up at the job centre (DSS building) and saying “I need a job. You are paid to get me a job. How can I help you to do your job properly by doing all I can do to make sure I am the one who gets the job?” With two sons in their twenties, both with five figure education debts, I can assure you that is not how it works today.
This may be the biggest financial gain you ever got in your life, so listen carefully. Do NOT believe any career advisor or worse still any member of secondary education staff. If they knew any better, they would not be doing what they do. To be fair, some have a calling but most just stay at school and grow into adults. And the university advisors? Well, they have gone from being slightly underpaid in the 1970s to ridiculously paid in the 2020s. That’s all because so many families want the best for their children and are willing to pay more for their kids’ education than for almost anything else. Had I not sent mine to private school, I could have bought each of them a two bedroom flat, and gifted them at 25 years old so they would never need a mortgage. Hindsight is a wonderful gift.
My advice includes my experience as a (charitable) chair of governors of a small private secondary school, where I learned that the entire public sector for secondary education has only one goal - to get 100% of the cohort through the system and ensure they all achieve the pass mark by the age of 18. No point in trying to match education to jobs available because the market changes about 100 times as fast as it did in the 1970s.
My recommendation? Try buying and selling stuff on eBay - or Amazon. Fail fast, recover fast and move on. That is the most rewarding education you will ever receive. Empowerment - to do what you like, when you like, and be responsible for your actions.
And education never stops. I graduated in electronic and electrical engineering in 1978, and my career took me into all walks of life. I am now unemployable, so call myself a management consultant to be kind to myself. My most recent education decision has been to watch a series of MIT lectures given by Gary Gensler on the subject of crypto-currencies. You may find such topics interesting (or not). They are certainly thought-provoking, and Mr Gensler talks about the benefits of attending his course as “critical thinking and critical reasoning”. I hope this has been helpful to you. I pay nothing, except my time, for this type of education, and in its application to my hobby of investment and trading, it is priceless.
Not sure if the link below will work. My first time in attempting to free myself from the shackles of Google, Facebook, Microsoft theft of my data.
gary gensler mit lectures at DuckDuckGo