Citizen B Responds

My wonderful friend Citizen B sent me this response to my last post. As it was too long for the comments section, I have posted it unaltered below. And thank you, B, for reminding me that life isn't as bad as I feel. Without my friends and family, I would have already lost my mind.

If you had been a soul-less business major, you might have been working for a credit card company, or a major bank/insurance company. Then the crisis would have hit and they may have laid you off all the same. Or if you had kept your job, you may have been thankful for the salary, but loathed going to work each day. Look at Dameon. He makes a good salary, but he hates his job and it works him to death.

My uncle has an engineering degree, which is very practical and usually easy to get a job with. He's in his 50s and was laid off again. He was a cook to put himself through college. He's now looking for a cook job again because no one is hiring in his field.

Think of it this way--at least you enjoyed your time in college. As my mother always said (and this she learned from a business class), there is no such thing as a wrong decision. If it had a definite right or wrong answer, it wouldn't be a decision. You can only do the best you can with the information you have at the time.

Also, far less useful degrees you could have had:

Religious Studies
Philosophy
Art History
Psychology (without a masters, it's useless)
Film Studies
Recreational Studies (I know people who majored in it)
Welsh Language (it's a real major)
Dance
Vocal performance
Theater performance
Archeology (again- no masters, no good)
Visual Art, specifically sculpture
American Studies (it's real)
Women's Studies
Quilt Studies
Comparative Sociology