[jyl]

To throw up another example of where "useless" liberal arts degrees can lead - my cousin got her BA in (shudder) English, worked for an freedom of the press NGO in China for some years, making very little money as you can imagine. She then went to law school, clerked for a Supreme Court justice, became a prosecutor with the Justice Dept, tried civil rights cases all over the country. Meanwhile her husband to-be got a BA in (shudder) Poli Sci, went to work for the United Nations HCR (High Commission for Refugees) in Washington DC. He was posted to Geneva so they lived in France near Switzerland for several years, raised their young boys in France, she worked for an international criminal justice think tank, they still own a house in France. They are now in Africa where he runs the UN refugee camps in a country and she is consulting w/ the country's criminal prosecutors. Their next location will be New York or Geneva. These two people, with liberal arts degrees, are having a far more interesting and, I'd say, impactful life than many and, while not rich, are doing fine.