Explain something to me. Why is getting a degree on literature

>>9930553
> Why is getting a degree on literature or related fields, a bad idea if you want to make a living off writing and literature?
Only STEMfags think this. It's not a bad idea. Go study what you want, OP. I believe in you.

>>9930845
On the flipside, OP, I used to study English at an elite university yet I withdrew from the program to study CS because I was concerned about future employment prospects. I would only study literature now if I won the lottery.

>>9930553
Literally no one gives a fuck what your degree is in after you leave college, just don't expect to get a day job in English/Literature unless you want to go into academia. If you're a people person, you'll probably get a decent paying job in insurance or something and write at night and hope to make it big someday.

It's what I'm doing because I didn't want to do academia.

>>9930553
People might complain about STEM but that and economics are the most reliabli ways to find jobs whereever you live on the globe.

There aren't jobs in literature and journalism jobs which where you could at least put skills you used in /lit/ are shrinking. I knew a journo student who went back to school for a STEM job.

Justify it all you want, at best, literature is a passion career, and the few jobs there are get propped up by people in more in-demand careers which actually produce useful economic output. The few jobs there are, are disproportionately tied to things like academia and political and liberal environments. It's not a steady in-demand job and STEMfags have a compelling point in pointing that out.

>>9931947
100% this. If you can get into an interview (have a decent resume) then you have all the power in the world to land any decent job.

>>9930553
Doing Continental Philosophy and Classics and you'll do better than Lit.