The best career path is to avoid college, avoid the indoctrination, avoid the debt.
Our society needs to rethink college and stop believing that people must be dumb if they didn’t graduate with a degree. It should not be a requirement for a job.
On The Job training is superior.
It’s possible that engineering and medicine might require study at a university. But those are exceptions.
In my opinion, college is what stupid people do when they’re 18. On-going informal education at the community level makes more sense. If you like Russian literature, find people around you or on-line who want to talk about it. Make it a hobby. Build a network of like-minded people. Do It Yourself.
You need college to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. The rest is a waste.