> As somebody who got his degree in a field of equal impracticality (political science), I am generally OK with the idea that liberal arts and social science degrees are not terribly useful things outside academia. I am OK with this because it's pretty much true.
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> Stephen

I suppose I am in the clear here, because I only minored in English. But that got me some useful jobs. I know, for example, that I was picked as a substitute proof reader at the Daily News Journal because of that minor. It also may have made me the choice for a position as a science teacher, simply because they needed somebody who could also handle 7th grade English for one period a day. The thinking was that anybody could teach science, not considered important at that time, but English teachers had to know how to read.
Howard