[tanknetter]

All but one of these "victims" didn't bother to select a college career that would provide marketable skills.

I consider myself pretty fortunate. My undergrad degree is Lib Arts, in Political Science. I spent the first couple/few years out of school bumming around working for various public policy/political organizations (Conservative ones) in DC.

Then I met the love of my life. She came with a condition, however: I had to grow up and get a degree that had either an MD, JD or MBA in it.

So I got the MBA, and went into IT management. And have never regretted it. I make much better money than I would have without, have a reasonably secure job and am positioned to be able to support my family through my retirement.

One of the big lessons I'm trying to impart on my kids (6 years till the first goes to college) is just what you say above - in looking at a degree they need to also look at what kinds of success people with them have after they graduate.

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Thank you! I remember another poli-sci major on the "99%" site that complained that he couldn't get a job despite sending out 200 applications.

Um, what exactly do you DO with a B.A. poli-sci degree? The only people I knew in college who were in poli-sci, were using it as a basis for law school, or as you said, some advanced degree. I can't conceive of a business that is crying out for some guy who knows all about Marx and the development of "the corporation in America". Compare and contrast in your blue-books please, and show your work.