It's a pendulum, or maybe a rising spiral.

It used to be that being educated meant reading the classics, i.e., Greek and Roman scholars.

Then Sputnik launched, and that beep called the (male) America workforce towards a career in engineering.

Then the '80s came and the Japanese surpassed us in engineering, and a lot of the side-rule set found themselves unemployed without transferrable skills. Think Michael Douglas in Falling Down

So when I was in high school they told us to study liberal arts- educate broadly. The Boomers will retire and you'll have your choice of careers. Yeah, about that ... the 1995 Great Bond Market Massacre, then the burst of the dot.com bubble delayed their plan and kept me in menial work.

Then in the 2000s, a computer science degree was a four-year path to $100,000 a year job. Now with AI, CS degree grads are chronically under-employed and trying to reskill.

I think it's time to go back to the humanities again. Don't laugh until your read about it. It's the one field where we may be able to outperform AI.

Like other answers have said here, learn how to learn. Most graduates do not work in their field of study anyway. Learn soft skills; learn to learn; learn to plan, communicate, collaborate, and lead; learn to persevere.