Here is an article about the value of a liberal arts degree in the job market:
http://encarta.degreesandtraining.com/articles.jsp?article=featured_is_there_hope_for_a_philosophy_major>1=27001
It's a bit contrived in some ways, but I agree with the message. Studying the liberal arts certainly is improving my life at the moment.. We'll see how chewed up I get by the job market when I graduate.
Everybody acts like the perfect job is just sitting out there waiting and all anyone has to do is get some kind of cookie cutter degree to trim the edges so you'll just fit. Life is never like that. Sure, it's important to have an education, but even an MBA is no guarantee of a job or more importantly of a satisfying career. Inevitably, an individual has to create that for themself in one way or another. Especially in the humanities/liberal arts. Being creative and flexible is obviously a plus.
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