Once even if you had a degree in Philosophy you had also taken classes in advanced maths as well as English composition.
You knew the basics of how the world worked, you could do math, write a coherent report, turn your work in on time, get along with people of other cultures, all things that even now will get you a job.
You also did not think that you already knew everything.
In fact, if your collage had done their job properly you were extremely cognoscente of how much you did not know.
Not the case today.
Good summary. The reason that many boomers with degrees in “anything” were able to get hired and have successful careers is that college taught us how to learn. The degree was the price of entry, it earned you an interview. But all the qualities that are so desperately lacking in today’s graduates, such as intellectual curiosity, a basic understanding of the scientific method, solid English written and verbal skills, the ability to research and rationally and logically advance an argument or defend a point with facts and data regardless of whether we personally agreed with it, and most of all, humility, were learned in college regardless of major.