you need to know where you college is located and where you are going to work.
the adivce that you can earn a lot through translation is totally BS.
In my mother college, students are very bad in scores of entrance exam Gaokao (or no Gaokao at all), but they have very good jobs, in logisitcs, road and highway construction, computer-related business, accounting, auto repair and insurance, seafaring, etc.
Give you an example(real), a student failing time and again in school exam went back to school for makeup exam, driving in a car that he earned in internship on building site. LOL.