It's been my experience that a 'practical' degree is no guarantee of a career. If it's in something that doesn't interest you, doesn't capture you, and isn't what you want to spend the rest of your working life doing - well, you're not likely to stay in that field, no matter how practical it is. I realized in my senior year of my bachelor's degree that I'd majored in the wrong thing, and stuck with it just because I had only one more semester to go and I wanted to be done with it. And after graduation, I spent another ten years working at Disneyland. ^^;;