You're absolutely right. I studymaxxed my way to a CS degree, the whole time I had a feeling I was doing the wrong thing but because my parents and everyone told me it was what i needed to be successful, I kept on doing it. I saw normalfags making friends, having fun, going to parties, while I continued to just focus on getting good grades. At one point I was really close to dropping out but I reluctantly persisted. I thought things would change once I started working.
Then it was a huge struggle to get a job because I had no network so I was thrown into the rat race of applying for jobs online and at career fairs. Finally I landed a job making like half of what should've been my starting salary. And within a month I became legit suicidal since I realized how much I hated the career I had spent the last 4 years working on instead of enjoying my youth. Eventually I managed to get a job paying a good salary but I was so demoralized I could barely function in it.
Now I'm NEET and want nothing to do with the field I spent the last 7 years working towards. I would rather live in some mudhut in a third world country, doing manual labor and counting every cent than be a pathetic white collar wageslave subordinated to normalfags ever again.