And also wrong. My wife left academia from philosophy and is pulling in north of 100k right now doing project management stuff. She got there within 3 years, though we're in NYC so it's easier to get more cash here. It was a hard to transition, most employers don't know what to do with a humanities degree, but she was able to do it. A programmer coworker of mine also worked in philosophy, and transitioned to programming and is doing rather well for himself. He did this over the past few years, so long after computer science was well established. Transitioning out of humanities academia into non-academic jobs is difficult, much harder than for those in the sciences, but it's quite doable