“I don’t always talk to liberal arts majors. But when I do, I order a LARGE fries”.
BOL!
I received my BS in BusAd in the early 1960’s. The job market at that time was tight supposedly.
It was only tight for the liberal arts majors. My engineering buddies and my BusAd peers/buddies had many job offers to pursue.
The liberal artisies had three choices:
1. Go get their masters and Phds and hope that they got a job teaching the same old stuff to future unemployables.
2. Somehow get a teacher’s certificate to teach something in some public school.
3. Hope that some corporation with good training programs would hire them and train them to do something to earn a paycheck.
Flash forward to the late 1980’s, the same cycle was still going on. Kids with good engineering degrees got jobs. Nephews and nieces with solid MBAs with real internships got good jobs and still have good jobs.
One of our younger relatives with a double engineering degree labeled the liberal arts degrees as IEDs or instant unemployment degrees.
At that time in our recent history, those with IED’s had the same three options as noted above.
Flash forward to the past few years. Still grads with good engineering degrees are getting job offers. Those with good STEM backgrounds and degrees are getting great offers and even high paying internships. MBA’s with good STEM backgrounds are doing okay.
The IED grads have the same 3 options as noted above for the past 50+ years.
The IED grads often end up in social so called works or a paycheck for showing up for a government paycheck. 99.99% of these people are card carrying rats and hate America.
Funny, my best college pal graduated with a BA in English Lit in 1974 and she ended up a senior vp with the largest pr firm in New York City. Why? She could write grammatically and succinctly; and had superb people skills. I believe Bill Bennett got his degree in Philosophy - didn’t hurt him much.