Types of jobs for liberal arts majors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

My husband was a history major and his now running a major tech company (after getting an MBA) making about the same as above.

For every single person who majored in history, now in law, with 2M in salary, there are 10,000 history majors people out there who make very little money. Just saying.

I am waiting for someone who says: my kid majored in French and is now raking in $$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-major-highest-lowest-incomes/

History is not too bad compared to other huminites, but still way below Econ, Business, STEM

OP said top ranked. The numbers look a little different when you aren't including History majors at Radford

https://careers.williams.edu/files/2021-Destinations-After-Williams.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m one of 4 kids who all went to SLACs. Me, Lit major with French minor, lawyer. Brother, international relations major, long career as a Naval Officer. Sister, Econ/Japanese double major, worked a few years doing random nonprofit jobs, got an MBA and works for Google (maybe YouTube now?) doing something in marketing. Other sister was a biology major, did Peace Corps, taught for a while in private schools, got married to a classmate and is now a SAHM living her best life.

Oh and we all own homes in nice neighborhoods and are financially secure, no trust funds or parental money, and none of us has ever had to work at Starbucks contrary to what some on this board would have you believe.

NO. Mongo only major in STEM. Philosophy make Mongo feel sad.

Much better to spend $80k a year for a degree where you will be replaced with AI in ten years.

#1 job most at risk from AI: coder/software engineer.

They are still the ones who know/understand AI the best.
Still in way better position then humanities majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-major-highest-lowest-incomes/

History is not too bad compared to other huminites, but still way below Econ, Business, STEM

OP said top ranked. The numbers look a little different when you aren't including History majors at Radford

https://careers.williams.edu/files/2021-Destinations-After-Williams.pdf

Here's another data point.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University

Harvard English: $49675
Harvard history: $89,238
Harvard Econ:$124,570
Harvard CS: $256,539

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m one of 4 kids who all went to SLACs. Me, Lit major with French minor, lawyer. Brother, international relations major, long career as a Naval Officer. Sister, Econ/Japanese double major, worked a few years doing random nonprofit jobs, got an MBA and works for Google (maybe YouTube now?) doing something in marketing. Other sister was a biology major, did Peace Corps, taught for a while in private schools, got married to a classmate and is now a SAHM living her best life.

Oh and we all own homes in nice neighborhoods and are financially secure, no trust funds or parental money, and none of us has ever had to work at Starbucks contrary to what some on this board would have you believe.

NO. Mongo only major in STEM. Philosophy make Mongo feel sad.

Much better to spend $80k a year for a degree where you will be replaced with AI in ten years.

#1 job most at risk from AI: coder/software engineer.

How is AI created?

CS background maybe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

My husband was a history major and his now running a major tech company (after getting an MBA) making about the same as above.

For every single person who majored in history, now in law, with 2M in salary, there are 10,000 history majors people out there who make very little money. Just saying.

I am waiting for someone who says: my kid majored in French and is now raking in $$$.

My best friend majored in French and got a graduate degree in translation in France after undergrad. She got a job at a language learning software company and is now C-Suite at another software company. And, she has a fabulous French husband she found while living in France.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-major-highest-lowest-incomes/

History is not too bad compared to other huminites, but still way below Econ, Business, STEM

OP said top ranked. The numbers look a little different when you aren't including History majors at Radford

https://careers.williams.edu/files/2021-Destinations-After-Williams.pdf

Here's another data point.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University

Harvard English: $49675
Harvard history: $89,238
Harvard Econ:$124,570
Harvard CS: $256,539

For median earnings 4 years out, that isn't surprising. Back out the english majors in grad school and the numbers will probably look a bit different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What types of jobs do most liberal arts majors go for? It appears among the high paying ones listed are technical writer, graphics designer, etc... but are these really?

https://www.coursera.org/articles/liberal-arts-degree-jobs

Top ranked liberal arts colleges appear to be low volume and costing about 60k/year. With this kind of investment, what jobs do graduates expect to do?

graphic designers do not get paid a lot. $50K is low for someone with a degree. You'd be better off working as a machinist in terms of pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

Perhaps OP is phrasing the question poorly, but wants to hear stories of people that did NOT have to go to grad school to get where they are. If you required grad school to get where you are...well, then who knows if your liberal arts major was worthwhile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m one of 4 kids who all went to SLACs. Me, Lit major with French minor, lawyer. Brother, international relations major, long career as a Naval Officer. Sister, Econ/Japanese double major, worked a few years doing random nonprofit jobs, got an MBA and works for Google (maybe YouTube now?) doing something in marketing. Other sister was a biology major, did Peace Corps, taught for a while in private schools, got married to a classmate and is now a SAHM living her best life.

Oh and we all own homes in nice neighborhoods and are financially secure, no trust funds or parental money, and none of us has ever had to work at Starbucks contrary to what some on this board would have you believe.

so basically you all needed an advance degree or marry well to get paid well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean humanities or social sciences majors? Because my nephew is a CS major at a small liberal arts college and has a really good data science job lined up next year. Because math and science ARE among the liberal arts.

+1
My spouse was a sociology major. Those advanced stats classes are quite marketable.

Not all humanities majors are the same, either.

? The PP said their nephew is a CS major not a LA major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to investment banking (along with a chunk of classmates)

That was my experience. The school offered a couple of accounting and finance classes unrelated to any major and those where very popular classes.

ah, so, they needed business classes to get a good job because liberal arts classes alone didn't cut it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

My husband was a history major and his now running a major tech company (after getting an MBA) making about the same as above.

do people not understand that most history, English majors need advanced degrees to get paid well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband was a history major. He went to law school and is now making $2 million plus a year as an equity partner in a law firm.

My husband was a history major and his now running a major tech company (after getting an MBA) making about the same as above.

For every single person who majored in history, now in law, with 2M in salary, there are 10,000 history majors people out there who make very little money. Just saying.

I am waiting for someone who says: my kid majored in French and is now raking in $$$.

My best friend majored in French and got a graduate degree in translation in France after undergrad. She got a job at a language learning software company and is now C-Suite at another software company. And, she has a fabulous French husband she found while living in France.

once again, someone who needed an advanced degree to get paid well.

Very very few people with just a liberal arts degree, and not an advanced degree or another degree get jobs that pay well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-major-highest-lowest-incomes/

History is not too bad compared to other huminites, but still way below Econ, Business, STEM

OP said top ranked. The numbers look a little different when you aren't including History majors at Radford

https://careers.williams.edu/files/2021-Destinations-After-Williams.pdf

Here's another data point.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University

Harvard English: $49675
Harvard history: $89,238
Harvard Econ:$124,570
Harvard CS: $256,539

For median earnings 4 years out, that isn't surprising. Back out the english majors in grad school and the numbers will probably look a bit different.

This is 10 year from beginning of college.
You should have grad or law degree, and start making money by this time.