Actually I worked in the Archaeology/History field for over a decade. Good people who apply themselves are always employed and they can make decent money too.
>>Actually I worked in the Archaeology/History field for over a decade. Good people who apply themselves are always employed and they can make decent money too.
Me too. Self-taught programmer who continues to study every week.
I learned to study in my "useless" MA program because we had 300 page-per-night reading assignments. And you better know the material the next day or you will be whipped in the seminar and made to look like an idiot. Also had to deal with loads of data, compile, come up with hypothesis, test them, present your findings to a room full of professors at annual meetings. I worked with every low-tech manufacturing you can think of (stone tool making, hand-formed pottery, open-air kilns) and high tech (GPS before it was widely available, GIS, database, statistical analysis programming) often within hours of each other.
Didn't make much money, but it really prepared me to be a go-getter in my present career path. Unlike others I know in the tech industry, I know I could switch careers if I had to and be successful.