The Humanities and a University education

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In the Canterbury Tales, the Clerk of Oxford is highly praised as a learned man who's always seen with his Aristotle, but he's a poor man.
The proliferation of finance and white collar service jobs meant over the last 50 years meant that you could study for a humanities degree and get a job in consulting if you were intelligent. This was particularly the case in Britain and Europe more generally, but also to a lesser extent in America.

What is the future of non-STEM fields? It's a duller world without them

https://www.businessinsider.com/recent-c...job-2026-3

Yes, I'm sure it's harder to reason and write for a living but I know someone who took a BA in graphic arts and managed to get a first job at double my salary and in the past 10 years has leap frogged a bit into double that. I know someone else who turned a BA in psychology into a career with an independent agency that identifies and prosecutes insurance fraud, which she loves. And both for the last 5 years have been largely working from home. Kids these days lol.

So what I'm saying is the first job isn't necessarily what you might have had in mind but it's the person who molds their life, with effort.