I graduated into a local recession. I had turned down a really well paid job offer in February of my senior year (a long story) and over two months after graduating I was damn glad to get an interview with a local engineering consulting company.

During the interview day I was asked by multiple people if I was an expert in a specific computer language. I was not. I'd had a class in the first couple of semesters and that was it. I lied and said I was an expert. I got the job.

The first weeks I spent with stacks of manuals in my office (yeah, this was back in the day of actual manuals and offices) learning the language. I figured if I could make it into two engineering honor societies I could damn well re-learn a programming language. I still work with this language decades later. LOL, that is more than a bit ironic.

So I agree with 99% of everything you post here. You can enjoy non-dairy ice cream and watch a movie. Better for your health, better for the planet, and a hell of a lot better for the cows.