Excellent - and about time !
Before retiring our company engaged co-op students and high school seniors -paid - to experience the realities of business and customer expectations. 
Underemployment ? Our high schools "graduate" snowflakes who expect gold stars for merely sowing up and receive inflated grades ..... The real world - customers - don't care .....
As for university - professional degrees sill matter, but require hard work and academic excellence. General degrees may be of personal interest but limited career prospects. A college/trade almost guarantees a job. In any case be prepare to leave home to where the jobs are - beyond the centre of the known universe .... Travel to foreign cultures and read widely. 

Reality is not a computer screen displaying a canned program ....