Some people I met today were economics majors.

"You guys look comfortable in your basketball shorts."
"Yeah, we actually just finished a hike."

They were younger than me, graduating 2 years after me. The pair were friends during college in a Wisconsin university. One of them is from Samoa, and happened to be on vacation here. The other is from China, and is stationed here for the army. They met up because the pictures on facebook showed they were on the same island.

"You're an econ major too?"
"Yeah... It was because it was the shorter major."

We all had studied the same things, but the man stationed here and I both chose Economics because we happened to be good at it. Neither of us want to continue studying it. The other fellow was working at a company doing some analyses, but hated his coworkers.

"Yeah... I couldn't do a desk job, I really just like meeting new people to enjoy it."
"Yeah... It's ok, but it's my coworkers I can't stand."

We continued to talking and I showed the Microsoft's Data Scientist Program since he seemed really interested in what he was doing and enjoyed the work. I told him it's really up to him to look at it, but it couldn't hurt.

He was impressed I knew a lot, I just told him I have a lot of time to read and that's always important to me.