It won't be the road more travelled by for much longer I'd guess. Nearly every parent of college age children that I talk to is pushing them to go into computer science.
Got a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, graduated with honors. Then proceeded to have a career as a finishing carpenter. I sometimes wish I had started carpentry right out of highschool instead of going to university.
Yes. I didn't learn anything of real value. The social/meeting people/having a good time value was low as well, because I was pretty introverted back then.
Did it help me? Definitely not in terms of skills. Maybe a tiny bit in terms of prestige value, because it was an above average college. But in my "starter job", that got me going in my career path, there were people who had no college degree. So probably not.
No. I worked right our of high school and never regretted it because I worked in skilled labor so I can now charge people $50-100 an hour for basic tasks like furniture assembly, mounting TVs, and hanging light fixtures, etc.
I graduated from the school of hard knocks. I also have a degree in financial accounting which doesn't count because I have never had a job in finance or accounting in my entire life. Basic accounting was very helpful running my business though and helped me save money on bookkeeping and accountant costs when we were building the business because I just did it all myself and got our accountant to sign off for taxes. You don't need to go to school to learn basic accounting though.