I used to say the same thing to guys who “studied” finance. it’s the disdain they carry for people who are off knowingly program and non-compliant with the neoliberal takeover of higher education.

as an older non-trad, people who were in school for some one-note ass discipline, chosen purely from some single-axis value proposition frame tell on themselves like crazy by how hard they are resisting education in favor of becoming credentialed / trained.