English majors who natively speak English will still be asking "would you like fries with that".
Yeah, let’s hate on English majors! They’re stupid!
After all, the study of language and literature only develops reading, writing, and analytical skills, that’s all. Just the skills you need for just about anything — including science.
Most people don’t know it, but lots of doctors — good ones — were English majors. Similar analytical skill sets needed to succeed.
Others got into programming, etc.
However, when it comes to drafting de novo instructions about how to do things, or how they must or should be done, or regulations with the force of law (meaning 10 to 16, or 16 to 21 years with $100,000 fines), that's a different situation and you rarely find systems engineers or English majors doing either.
That's a field where you have to have native talent and the good (or bad) luck to find yourself in line to do that sort of writing and study.
It's not something you can do until you're 60 ~ or even 40 ~ eyesight problems get in the way, or, as Tony Wiener so aptly demonstrated, you can just go nuts!
So there's a career giving you maybe 15 years, top, to do the hard work, and maybe another 10 as an "editor" or manager. Whatever you are going to do you will do in that narrow gap in life.
Probably more long term work available to English majors but no one hands over power like that to any of them.