I'm still looking for work currently...I'm graduating in December with a BA in humanities from a well respected university, don't plan on giving any names, but, nevertheless...I've had a very light schedule recently (just a few hours to finish up) and have looked into the market somewhat but I am at a bit of a loss for where to go, exactly. I'm definitely not the 'corporate' type and have no real desire to go into academia or teaching, although both of those professions would go well with my humanities education, in a way. Not really desiring to return to being a waiter or getting into a 8/10 dollar an hour job situation, but, well, like I said, I'm not really sure where to go with my education at the moment. I have next to no technical training, just countless hours spent on writing and academic research under my belt which essentially equals little to no pragmatic, real world, value. Unless I improve drastically in my corporate interviewing skills in the next year, I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably be working for a time in the type of jobs that I've been dealing with all throughout college, i.e., relatively unskilled work that pays near or only a bit more than minimum wage. Sorry to say, but purely humanities-related degrees are seeming, at least to me, to be increasingly unnecessary in a world run on abstract figures and advanced scientific technological know how.
If you're asking why I would say that now and have gone through the process of having achieved a humanities B.A. in the first place, well, trust me, at the college I went to, if I had taken the math/science route, I would have been academically annihilated...I would have been lucky to make it out with a GPA higher than a 2.5 or so...I've always been good at the liberal arts, so, hey, that helped me get a great GPA at a great university...but what to do after that fact, that's still a mystery to me.
However, I am not trying to be a pessimist or whatever, I'm just being realistic...oh well, hope that my life doesn't turn into a boring cyclical workout, but about the best that I can do for myself after having gained all this collegiate know-how is to find a pretty good sales job, like at a car rental place or something along those lines.
Not really looking for opinions or help, just offering a perspective of a college kid coming out into this economy with a humanities past.