I'm a curator. Its a pretty interesting job. However, I went to an ivy league undergrad where I majored in art history and graduated at the top of my class, and then spent 7 years getting my doctorate, after which I held a series of internships and fellowships before landing a good curatorial position. I'm in my 40s and make under 100k, so don't expect a life of glamour and luxury. So, even if you didn't want to go that route, you'd still need training to get into a halfway decent masters program, and most museums now have their pick of phds. You might have better luck working in an art gallery or non profit arts center, but you need to develop your knowledge, skills and training.

Are my tax dollars really going to be spent hiring and commissioning music majors who describe themselves as having no skills, and who have expressed no interest in military service?

You dont need skills to shoot a gun or take enemy fire. It is the perfect career for liberal arts grads.

Don't need skills to shoot a gun or take enemy fire?

Maybe in the eighteenth century, Hollywood version.

Sure as hell not true for the last 75 years: a person without skills, both trained and learned, is most likely to be a casualty.

You have to LEARN how to fire and/or serve a weapon and you have to be TRAINED to have the habitual/reflexive responses necessary to be a rifleman, mortarman, machine gunner, gun crewman.

Do you have enough $$ and contacts to open a gallery? If so, I'd do that. You probably won't like being an admin type, and probably don't want to go back to school. Use the resources you have!

Sounds like OP is a trust fund baby, coasting fat and happy on his/her inheritance. I despise people like OP, they drive up rents while refusing to get "real jobs."

You made your bed, you lie in it.