[Perdogg]

What a p***y boy. I would be embarrassed to use my name.

[LdSentinal]

History major? Hah.

He should have majored in Philosophy.

[mountainlyons]

The economy is great and there is full employment. You should have tried to get a job after Vietnam when someone like john kerry called you a baby killer and a war criminal. Lots of people had to do what ever they could not just what you want to do.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

He joined a hippie commune for 2 days but they wanted him to help harvest their weed.:}

[HarryCaul]

“1) There are no well-paying — let alone paying — jobs for history majors.”

It would help if you could construct a logically coherent sentence. Hint- reverse paying and well-paying.

[Seruzawa]

Wow! What an incredibly arrogant narcissist. Amazing.

Imagine believing that a liberal arts degree in history would make one ready to make huge benefits in other people’s lives. It’ all so unfair! LOL!

[Abby4116]

Might have been a good idea for him to apprentice as an electrician or a plumber. Obviously there isn’t a big job market out there for BA History majors.

[dk88]

To quote Drew Carey - ‘Awwwww, you don’t like your job? We have a club for that!
It’s called EVERYBODY.
We meet every night after work at the bar.’

[bboop]

hahah, get the waaaammmmbulance. This kid bought all the lies — ‘Major in anything, it doesn’t matter. Don’t sell YOUR soul and actually get a 9-5 job — (let your dad do that). Go to a pricey school. A career will be the fulfillment of all your dreams.’

The nature of life is -— WORK. There, you’ve got it.

[Lizavetta]

Upon graduating, I was helplessly launched headfirst into the “real world,” equipped with a degree in history

Helplessly launched?

"Equipped" with a degree in HISTORY???

I don't even know where to begin. But I do know that little Kenny will soon be saying, "Would you like to supersize that".

[Lizavetta]

Upon a second reading of the article I caught this little gem...."To seek a haven devoid of the ruthless 9-to-5 ebb and flow of contemporary America"....

It's official. He's a loser throwback to the 60s.

[HerrBlucher]

I wouldn’t hire him. He has horrible judgement, going 5 figures in debt for a History degree? LOL! History is a great subject and can enrich your life enormously, but not with money.....bwhahahahahahahaha!

Now he’s living at the mom and dad Holiday Inn....maybe they will give him points....:)

[Robert A Cook PE]

I need somebody to clean up power plants ... at 15.00 - 20.00 per hour.

[buccaneer81]

What a brat.

[sionnsar]

Before ricocheting back home, I would learn two important lessons: 1) There are no well-paying — let alone paying — jobs for history majors.

I won't say "Duh!" because I don't know the market. I took a similar gamble (presuming the world will always need new engineers, even if it didn't when I got my BSEE, though it certainly did later for an MSEE/CS) -- and won. But if they weren't looking then I might have gone for Piled Highest and Deepest.

And maybe wound up flipping burgers.

There are no guarantees.

[Joann37]

Shouldn’t his history ciricculum have taught him that there are no jobs for history majors?

I went to the Buffalo paper where the story originated and wanted to tell the kid that (as the rest of us have pointed out). Too bad; they don’t allow comments over there.

[KarlInOhio]

The World's Smallest Violin (Desperate liberal needs Freeper advice)

Different title and source, but we've already had a lot of fun beating on this pinata.

[I see my hands]

To: Ken Ilgunas

"I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I had declared as an accounting major.."

I can tell you. You would be hearing things like: 'Forget it, loser, you are way too stupid' all the time.

[Larry Lucido]

Oh, yeah. I wanna hire him.

[Wage Slave]

If he wanted a degree in history, he could have obtained his teaching certificate to go with it. Instant job.

Or better yet, get the history degree within an ROTC program. Instant job.

Or spend the $32,000 learning a trade and opening a business.

He is as dumb as I was when I left college with a degree in English. It didn’t take me long to go to nursing school to get a marketable skill.