<p>I know it’s a convenience sample, but the people I know who have degrees in Psychology do the following work: barista, waiter, bartender, daycare worker and youth gang intervention. One of them is in a “career” which uses their degree and the one who makes the most money is the waiter. Meanwhile the people who have degrees in English are public school teachers (2), a private school teacher, in a masters program at Johns Hopkins, newly minted lawyer and also waitress (along with the Psych major waiter). </p>
<p>The waiters are atypical though because the particular restaurant that they work at is elite and they make incredible amounts of money and just about everyone who works there has a college degree.</p>
<p>Once again a convenience sample, but I asked my Dad and he says as long as a degree’s title doesn’t have “studies” or “interdisciplinary” in it then it’s a good degree. I didn’t expect this answer since he’s an aerospace executive and I expected “Engineering, Math, Finance” to come out of his mouth since that’s all he says to me, but I guess there’s a different standard for other people’s kids.</p>