Skills and credentials matter, obviously, but a university cannot predict what skills employers will demand in five years, let alone in fifty.
Better, I think, to follow your curiosity where it leads you. As an anxiety-ridden twenty-three year old I remember writing a quote in my journal that went something like “Follow your curiosity, and if a future arrives when what you know is in demand, there you are.” There’s no certainty in a quote like that, but certainty doesn’t exist anyways.
Walk onto a university campus and it feels like half the student population is majoring in business, not because they give two shits about business but because they’re all terrified about making money in the future. They want to be successful without having the first idea of what success is. This strikes me as a terrible way to live, and a cowardly way to run a university. Indeed business majors tend to make more money right out of college, but give it ten or twenty or thirty years and the chemistry, English, math, physics, and philosophy majors have all caught up with or surpassed them, and the later students are more likely to possess knowledge that future societies will actually find useful.
Call this a defense of traditional liberal arts and sciences.