People treating you differently since you've graduated?

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I earned an Engineering degree and immediately didn't like the work.  I went back to school and earned a Psychology degree and eventually became a Psychotherapist.  When I was younger I referred to that Engineering degree as "a waste of time and money" but now I refer to it as a "learning experience."  It gave me a lot of confidence in my ability to study and learn in an academic environment so that when I hit that Psych program I just cruised through it with no problems.  Grad school was a massive amount of reading combined with a never-ending series of 10-20 page essays.  I learned a lot and it became the foundation of my career.