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[quote=Anonymous]This is so highly dependent on the individual and what other things they have going on outside of their academic major (internships, jobs on campus, networking, people-skills) that it's hard to give a useful answer.

I was a STEM major, but most of my friends in college who had humanities degrees and were ambitious did just fine, even if they had meandering or unconventional paths. Many of them had done internships or volunteering (shadowing in a school, doing archival research, working on the marketing side for a tech startup, working with a state legislator) that conferred marketable skills and gave them a decent resume and network to draw upon when job-searching.

Also, even with my STEM major, I still had to hustle and have a useful and marketable track record of actual work when I was applying to jobs. Just showing up to a job interview and saying "I have a degree in chemistry" is not necessarily a guarantee of a job. You have to be strategic no matter what if you're not planning on immediately going to some professional-track grad school.[/quote]

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