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You may be doing fine, but objective measures of the average salary of humanities majors at schools like UCB say otherwise.

Most of the PMs I know have either business or STEM degrees.

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I guess we aren't talking about the same humanities majors. Most of my friends from Berkeley who are history or humanities majors are lawyers, academics, or doctors (yes, many of the humanities became doctors). They don't really seem to care about the money even though we as engineers seem they should care. Or they had to go through additional layer of study which depresses their true value.

So they took the easy road to get into medical or law school.

What about the humanities majors that went straight into the workplace?

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