As someone who is in this boat it's very cool that every member of an entering class since 2010 has been repeatedly told "do not pay hundreds of thousands for a trip through a meat grinder," looked at the alternatives, and cracked open the checkbook
I mean realistically the next best options are what, weapons manufacture that requires a degree you also don't have, insurance bureaucracy (this is basically a minimum wage job now), direct sales, podcasting and suicide. Cool world