As a grad with a history major at a pretty highly regarded university myself, I would advise younger people to go into more practical fields like STEM, accounting, business, finance, etc. It took getting grad degrees before I had practical skills in the marketplace.
Also, it doesn’t help that PC Revisionism has been pushed relentlessly in history departments complete with a rigid intellectually Stalinist orthodoxy that does not hire and denies tenure to any professors who do not tow the big government Leftist line. This became noticeable in the 80s and was becoming really pronounced in the early 90s when I graduated. I learned FAR more history reading original sources and sources from outside the Academy as well as historians from earlier generations than I learned in college.