marlowe

You should do a new set Merry xmas

The message option thwarts me, so I'll leave this as a comment. Sorry for the length.

Re: The standard liberal arts degree job panic

I can only speak from personal experience. I parlayed a degree in Early Modern English Lit. into a desk job in insurance. You can interchange a lot of cubicle jobs with similar qualifications. A lot of places just want a bachelor's degree and don't particularly care what subject it was taken in. Again, only from personal experience, I can't recommend that course though. Ten hours a day between four grey-carpeted walls is as deadening as lithium.

I had financial and family obligations, so I pretty much had to bite the bullet. If I'd been freer or more selfish, though, I'd have taken on the debt, gone to grad. school, and been a much happier man.

I don't know you at all, so you'll have to draw your own conclusions. If you want stability, you can pull down $30 - 35K out of the box (considerably more in metropolitan areas) in insurance and other similar fields. (Hell, even T.S. Eliot spent years working in a bank before he came on at Faber; and Wallace Stevens passed on lecturing at Harvard to maintain his executive position in an insurance company.)

It's all down to what you want and what you can stand. I'd say spend a year trying to do something you really want to do, if you can afford the luxury. You'll always have a fall back with a degree.

In any case, I truly wish you all the best, however the combination of fate and your own wishes happens to lead you.