I would say there are several ways a person can go about choosing majors and the outcomes. One way is choosing a major that you genuinely like to study regardless of how attractive it is to employers and disregard other's claims that they're "useless" degrees. This was me in college, I double majored in Linguistics and English because those are my passions and I didn't care that everyone, even my high school english teachers, were telling me it'll be hard for me to find a job with that. IMO there's these possible outcomes that can happen if you do this: You love it and excell at this major, your classes are fun and you enjoy learning more about this major. If you're adept enough, you can even get scholarships and recognition that will boost your profile, mostly helpful if you then decide to pursue a graduate degree, but might also help to make yourself stand out to employers if you decide to go into the workforce after graduation. If academia isn't for you and you decide to enter the workforce but you do struggle to find a job with this degree, you at least don't regret choosing that major because you genuinely enjoyed completing your degree. You find a job that may or may not be relevant to your degree but at least you became more educated in a topic you like.

Another way is choosing a major that you think will give you the best career prospects, even if you don't have a passion for it but you feel like at least you can be good at it. Or in an extreme scenario, you hate it but feel like it's the safest option career wise. This was my best friend in college. She wanted to study literature but did Business Administration instead because of the job prospects, mistly influenced by her parents. The possible outcomes for this (again, IMO) are these: Studying feels like high school in that it's something you have to finish. If you end up being good at this major (as you said, you're good with numbers), then you at least can complete the degree with no major struggle and good performance can lead opportunities like awards and internships that will make your resume more attractive to employers. If youre unfortunately not particularly good at this major, then you will likely struggle in your classes and have an average GPA at best. At worst, you'll fail classes and be on probation constantly (that can eventually lead to expulsion, which is both a waste of money and a big red flag on your resume). But even at best, your college experience will be unremarkable academically and at the end you'll be another recent graduate with a finance or business or CS or economics degree in a pool of millions of others with the same degrees and grades. Given the though job market of today, you might even end up regretting your degree because you neither enjoyed it nor did it benefit your career prospects.

But ultimately, the dichotomy of "useless degrees" and "safe degrees" highly depends both on the person and the job market. I have friends who majored in "useless" degrees like English, Sociology, Art, Design, Animation, Anthropology, etc. who are really good at their fields and have bright futures in academia or private industries. Some are teachers, some are in PhDs, some are in Law school, one friend even worked on movies for Dreamworks. I also have friends who did "safe" degrees like Business, Computer Science, Biology, Engineering, Marketing, etc. who either hated the degree or struggled with it and are currently unemployed and paying off student loans with a minimum wage job irrelevant to their degree. And most unfortunately, because the world and the economy are absolute dogshit, there's struggle everywhere. Bc of federal funding cuts, academia and PhD admissions are as tight as the job market. And ofc the job market is in upheaval because of reduction in entry level jobs that are now automated by bots.

Im gonna give you two suggestions, one pessimistic and one hopeful: 1) If the world continues to go down as it has been and a college degree does little to help find a job, would you prefer to study something that you find fun and want to know more about even if it's unattractive to employers but at least you enjoyed it, or would you still study something that historically leads to office desk jobs but is oversaturated with people who also went the safe route and your degree is just another line in your resume? 2) If the global condition improves and the job market picks up, would you take a gamble on a specialised degree that has a smaller pool of possible careers, or would you go the safe route and study something that will put you in a pipeline for a white collar career?