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by vitaflo 1203 days ago
My college roommate was an English major. Now he is a professor of English at a university and is quite happy with it.

Of course the joke always was that he was majoring in English to teach future majors in English.

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That's the dirty secret of the whole education-leading-to-PhD system -- it's only real and useful purpose is to create more educators.