I think that both sides are doing the current situation a disservice. The STEM-Lords[1] are acting like everything without a clearly defined profitable career track is a complete waste of time. The guidance counselors are still living in the 90s, where any college degree could get you a job without question.<p>The reality is in the middle - majoring in a humanities subject can still work out just fine, but you have be a lot more careful about what you do in college and what skills you develop. This scares the shit out of the STEM folks, as their idea of &quot;be careful about what they do in college&quot; mostly appears to be &quot;Oh, so I need to do an okay internship or two over the summer.&quot; The humanities kids have to do a lot more research and a lot more gumshoeing to figure out where they&#x27;re going to go after they graduate.<p>Unfortunately, most kids aren&#x27;t like that. They&#x27;re going to college because Mommy and Daddy told them to do so, and they&#x27;re majoring in History because it &quot;sounded cool,&quot; not because it was their passion or because they decided that a History degree was the correct decision for achieving their goals in life. If you expect this apathetic kid to go out and look for himself to figure out exactly how his History degree can get him a job, you&#x27;ve got another thing coming. That&#x27;s where we get the &quot;barista with a master&#x27;s degree&quot; stereotype.<p>Basically, if your chosen major doesn&#x27;t have a well-defined career path, (This includes biology, incidentally) you need to <i>work harder</i> and be <i>even more proactive</i> in figuring out where your next move is going to be. This bodes poorly for the average immature 19-year-old who has absolutely no idea what he&#x27;s going to be doing.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;aHNyJ.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;aHNyJ.jpg</a>