When I was in my 20s back in the 1980s the usual career path from my degree was social work, teaching, or media/journalism.

After some years of inner city voluntary work I accepted my personality wasn't cut out for a tough despairing life of social work....

Neither was I confident in the post grad social work student I shared a house with.
He and some of his fellow students [christians amongst them] seemed awfully middle class and patronising in their attitudes
to the disadvantaged 'underclass' they would eventually be working with...???