<p>My husband rather grimly repeated some statistics he had heard recently (as if they were news) about the majors least likely to be working in their field and theater was in the top of those.</p>
<p>I take that to mean that if you have a theater degree, you can transfer the learning to a wide range of things - unlike something like, say, welding, which right now has a very high employment rate, but really doesn’t transfer into something else.</p>
<p>Anyway - we all know that math and other STEM majors have the best prospects for a high paying job IN <em>their</em> field. Being as how my daughter couldn’t pass a STEM curriculum even if she wanted to, which I think she would rather sling hash her whole life than try to do, it’s rather a useless and pointless statistic. She isn’t going to be a STEM major and nothing will change that. I’d rather her do theatre than try for a halfhearted, not particularly fabulous job prospect either major such as history or marketing or such. Yes, exceptional people in those fields will do well - exceptional people anywhere will do well, and I think my D is exceptional, and I suspect everyone else feels the same way about their kid, and frankly, if they are a theater kid, they probably are, because theater kids…well, they just are.</p>
<p>My daughter sent me a photo yesterday of a Japanese good luck kitten vase (actually a prototype of hello kitty) which she is turning into a lamp - not with a lamp kit but with all basic individual wiring elements. I am in so much awe of that. 
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<p>I think the future is going to be bleak for people who are dependent upon a Big Employer to give them a job which takes care of them and all their needs in exchange for them just showing up to work and putting in 40 hours. Those kind of paternal, clement, beneficial big daddy jobs are vanishing, and people who don’t have creative, adaptive, entrepeneurial skills who can create their own opportunities, are going to have a hard time, which isn’t really fair, but I think it’s the way things are going…I think the things they take away from theater will be a real advantage.</p>