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Thank you. It’s interesting that you work on Wall Street. One last request: are all the people you work with graduates with similar degrees (i.e., math, business), or are some college graduates with degrees in other majors, such as the denigrated liberal arts that so many on FR (such as you) love to rail against? Tell the truth now.

I am long retired.

But the folks who have liberal arts degrees on Wall St are usually analysts who are junior folk who are headed back to B-School for some technical training before becoming permanent.

Nowadays...math is the big thing!

BTW, I think a liberal arts degree is a wonderful thing...just not something needed for a job or vocation.

As said, liberal arts is a life-time goal/achievement.

I have never stopped studying my favorite fields (history, literature, archaeology, classics, etc). And my first love, math...it is still a growing endeavor.

I always held that a liberal arts degree was all well and good if you inherited a trust fund and never had to go out and earn a living on your own. Had I the opportunity, I would have loved to have gone to college to study the Beethoven symphonies, learned how to read the classics in their original Latin, and major in ancient history or maybe the Baroque Arts.

But alas, I had to go out and earn a living in the world so after my hitch in the military, it was off to Technical school where I majored in the unromantic arts of basic electronics and computer languages. Didn't work out so badly for me as I've never been unemployed and do quite well.

People that get liberal arts degrees and then expect to go out and make a living with it are often bitterly disappointed or if they are fortunate, they become marginally frustrated high school English and History teachers.

When I was coming up through high school in the late 1970s, a popular college major among my classmates for some reason was "Phys Ed". I wonder how that turned out for them.