Design offers an easy path to a profitable career. A specialization in UX design would easily earn your child a lucrative position in any tech company.
Even writing - something I pursued - offers a path to a stable career if you move towards copywriting and content. A few years in an agency as a copywriter and all sorts of options open up, some highly lucrative ones (creative director/strategist).
Our suggestions to choose something that might be profitable was a huge stress factor that pushed her towards depression and we decided to back off.
She had always surprised us in a good way, and she has proven to be very good a connecting with people, organizing, making things work.
I think she’ll be fine eventually.
We are not generationally wealthy, but tech has made us rich enough afford the college tuition without too much pain.
Not everyone can or wants to be an engineer.