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Raftergirl

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4. My kid majored in Politics, minored in History. Got a job immediately with a Fortune 200 company
Thu Jul 9, 2026, 11:07 AM
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that everyone on the planet knows well. He was accepted into their management training program and his first position was in sales analytics. The company (and most companies) didn’t care wtf you studied in college, only that you are smart, have critical thinking skills and excellent communications skills.

He is now, 11 years later, and 2 companies later, Manager of Sales operations for one of the biggest cybersecurity software tech firms. At 32 he is already in the top 10%.

Not a single “stem” class except the usual ones to fulfill basic requirements. Not a single business class either as his college (very small liberal arts college) offered zero of those.

My friend’s D got a great job at Google right out of college. She was an art history major at Williams. Don’t know where she is now, but I’m sure she is doing better than just fine.

Wall Street, for years, has hired Philosophy majors and I read AI companies are now hiring a lot of them, too.

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