> "... you need to be able to absorb even your lit majors" I think this cuts both ways, and in fact "cuts more" in the opposite direction; even the non-marketa

> "... you need to be able to absorb even your lit majors" I think this cuts both ways, and in fact "cuts more" in the opposite direction; even the non-marketable majors (in fact, especially the non-marketable majors) need a plan for how they will participate in the economy to support themselves. Expecting external entities, particularly abstract aggregates like "society", to figure that out for you is not a reasonable bet, and is certainly not compatible with being a responsible, independent adult. On the other hand, young people are often terrible at reasoning about long-term consequences. To mitigate this, I occasionally ponder whether high schools should offer some kind of 3 month "this is what life is like outside of school" program in which people play a simulated game of seeking employment, paying bills, etc wherein their stated degree/career choices affect the various probabilities. Unfortunately, it would be very hard to run such a game in a truly representative way (how do you reasonably estimate the chance of a lit major getting a good job straight out of college? How do you incorporate their other talents?). If done poorly, there's a chance such a game would devolve into being dominated by pre-law/pre-med/engineering/CS/business strategies, which would probably alienate more people than it educated.