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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From my experience, the people who criticize humanities majors, saying things like “have fun working at Starbucks” and “that’s a waste of time,” are from lower social classes and are overall less polished. On the other hand, those who are accepting of humanities majors tent to be more educated, wealthy, and well spoken. [/quote]

My experience is that the same person who is educated, wealthy and well spoken is quite congratulatory of someone studying history at Harvard, but has no problem telling the history major at Salisbury "have fun working at Starbucks".[/quote]

Well yes, but as a history major from a low end state school, they aren’t wrong.  It’s a dead end.  My classmates I know about work as cashiers or customer service, or went on to law school.  That’s OK…for many people a degree is a degree, but it wasn’t ever leading to a career in history.[/quote]

As with most "non stem degrees", those who want to go further have to have a plan.  Nobody is just sitting there asking for "someone with a BA in History".  You have to find what you want to do, get your foot in the door (internships, etc) and create a path for yourself.  But you should know that from the start of college.  
And the stem people who go furthest are the ones motivated to create the "best path" for themselves as well.  It's just easier to still get a job without that highly motivated position
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