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I was a history major as well. I am employed in the history field. I make a decent living. I pay all my bills and have enough left over to enjoy myself.

You shouldn't major in history if you want to drive around in a Mercedes-Benz. I think there is nothing wrong with wealth. I hate socialists whiny babies. I know my field doesn't pay much (supply and demand folks). If I want more money then I shall change careers. Liberal Arts careers take a certain economic sacrifice. Too many people just major in those fields to "get through" and then are surprised they don't make 6 figure salaries.

It's not too hard to get a museum job in Virginia. The degree matters, but having interned in college opened more doors for future employment.

I think the problem here is that most people go to college just to get a high paying job. I think we need more trade and technical schools for those people. To me a BA in a Liberal Arts degree should teach one a broad variety of subjects. I got through on a academic scholarship, but college in this sense is more of a luxury than necessity. Like in early America, when having a classical education was a finishing school for the mind. In my case I willingly chose a history career. I don't regret it. College made me more conservative not less. Challenging professors made my arguments stronger.

In the history field one must rely on evidence and facts to make good arguments. I had zero problems with my liberal history profs but ran into a brick wall with the English and Philosophy profs. History has more hard science to it than the average humanity.

I am debating whether to go for a Ph.D. or not. A part of me enjoys the practical side of a public history career. Another part of me wishes to infiltrate the university system. We need more conservatives willing to become professors. In a sense we need an alternative university system much like we have an alternative to the MSM.

In my case I wish to write books one day praising our Founders and thus our country. To do so, at least with a degree of credibility sad as the system is, you need that membership card (the Ph.D.). Very few good historians (there are some) are without it.

I fully understand the views of most of the posters. There are too many "pot smokers" and not enough serious scholars these days to make one be able to justify the classic liberal arts college. I wish we could remove these Ward Churchill b*stards and hippie student trash so we could reform college back to the standards of yesterday.

YH

Thank you for the very fine note.

May your tribe prosper, as the old saying goes.

You make a marvelous point: A degree in liberal arts teaches a person how to think and study and consider and draw conclusions based on evidence, etc. I think it is the best way to proceed in college because after you graduate you can do anything!

Now, what could be more fun than that?

PS: Just began the new Alexander Hamilton book by Ron Chernow. Hamilton, now there was a hard charger. Got through law school in six-months!

The schools and education system should be cited for consumer fraud. The Universities should be no different than ACME Tech where they advertise that you put 19.99 down and pay out via credit cards they will get you a job.

If people don't get jobs, they be meeting Elliot Spitzer (Lib, NY Attorney General). Universities, imply similar and are much more expensive and they work hard to bankrupt the kid so they can pay a thousand Ward Churchills. The High School in cahoots with the educational elites, pass people on to brain washing part 2.

When you are 17 you are not worldly, in most cases, who do you rely on for advice ? Yes these kids can decide if to go to school or join the Army, but the smartest people or most honestly objective people, the school system does not influence them. The objective of the Big City school system is to put more people in the seats for socialist indoctrination, fill seats for more money and pass them on so they look good on file.