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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