Well technically you can do something with that degree. It’s still a bachelors degree. You can get immediate admission to a technical school or community college no questions asked. It opens the door to law school, business school, and even go back to school and get a teaching degree. Get a masters and a doctorate and be a professor. Etc, etc, etc...
It’s not a dead-end degree unless you make it that way. Most people that do get a liberal arts degree (i’d say over 90%) move on to other things and are very successful. And very few actually work in the field they studied in.
For example, most psychology majors will work in a field that has nothing to do with mental health. They may be attractive to companies as managers or human resource officers as they have a better understanding working with people. And they can apply this knowledge and fly up the corporate ladder.
Statistically a person with a college degree regardless of major will almost always be one step ahead of the employee that never went to college. It has happend many times. The problem is many students have a sense of entitlement and dont want to spend the time to work there way up the ladder.
The life time earnings difference between a HS diploma and a bachelor’s degree is a about a million dollars according to the various articles pushing the value of a college education.
Guess what that $100K in student loans is going to cost her in interest? About a million bucks if she makes minimum payments. Federal Plus loans like she has are 8.5% fixed.
The only ones that are better off because she has a degree are the lenders and the college. It’s turned into a racket. Does she really need that BA to be a photographer’s assistant? Really?
Her BA was not a ticket to higher lifetime earnings, it was a ticket to lifetime debt slavery.