As one of the harbingers of the Baby Boom I bought the story that "you can never get too much education and the more you get the more you can earn." Maybe. But mostly it was a bill of goods. My mechanic and my electrician now make more than I do.(cuz they did what I described in the first paragraph).
If I could do it over—I have a BA from the University of CA, an MA from Georgetown University—I’d do exactly the same but I’d go for a BS and MS, with the same liberal arts majors, instead. I should have taken just a little more math/science.
I’ve found BS/MS degrees are just more useful. I’ve recently been looking at a career change (I work for the federal gov’t at present) to the health field, and have discovered that I should have gotten a BS.