Humanities (English) graduate here. I&#x27;ll be honest: my education did help me understand the world better, but it left me completely and utterly unprepared for a role outside of academia.<p>Fortunately, I&#x27;ve had an entrepreneurial spirit and freelanced my way through college and through extensive self-study, built up a career in marketing.<p>But my college mates who weren&#x27;t as entrepreneurial, or didn&#x27;t have as much business sense are suffering. They&#x27;re working mostly dead end jobs or grinding away at the bottom end of academia. It&#x27;s not pretty.<p>I would caution anyone going for a humanities degree to think long and hard about their decision. If you&#x27;re not entrepreneurial, can&#x27;t hustle, and don&#x27;t pick up secondary skills (marketing, coding, sales, etc.), you&#x27;re going to have a hard, hard time.