The mantra of the U of O graduate with a Humanities degree and $30,000 in student loans: “Do you want fries with that?”

No matter how enlightened and ‘well-rounded’ the study of the humanities may make one, unless you are good enough to go into academia, that won't feed the bulldog.  When I attended Duck U, those who studied and loved all those humanities courses wound up in their senior year focusing on either teaching or the J-school. Anecdotally, I hear insurance sales and working for outfits like Enterprise are replacing the J-school work track today.