> Majoring in subjects that lead to careers with more job seekers than jobs and taking out student loans is are bad ideas. Too many people think of college as

> Majoring in subjects that lead to careers with more job seekers than jobs and taking out student loans is are bad ideas. Too many people think of college as just career preparation. But an education can be useful during the hours of your life when you are not in the office, too. Someone with a degree in history might not be able to get a job as a historian, but I'll bet you they will be more interesting at parties than someone who majored in accounting, works as an accountant, and spends his idle hours watching cable TV. By the way, history majors learn all sorts of skills that are useful in other fields; these people synthesize conclusions from large bodies of contradictory facts. If I were hiring intelligence analysts, or investigators, I would look seriously at a historian.