>do we really need more indebted baristas with English degrees? I feel like you're making a value judgement here that isn't entirely fair. The biggest shock to

>do we really need more indebted baristas with English degrees? I feel like you're making a value judgement here that isn't entirely fair. The biggest shock to me after graduating (with a degree in Electrical Engineering degree suma cum laude from a top 5 engineering school) is how much a crock of utter shit the much spouted "STEM shortage" was. Not only are there plenty of graduates, the actual duties involved in the over whelming majority of the available jobs could be done by next to anyone. When your indebted baristas are just as qualified for highly lucrative positions like enterprise software engineering it's a cultural problem not an individual problem. As an aside, the smart companies are using this to make bank. I work in enterprise software for a major financial institution and these liberal arts majors are a gold mine. They spend the same amount in training that they would on any fresh hire but, because of lack of opportunities available for humanities graduates, can lock them into lower starting salaries and stricter performance metrics. I feel like it's only a matter before the rest of technology catches up and realizes how much money they are leaving on the table by only hiring people that can code a red-black tree on the white board to develop their CRUD apps and maintain their databases.