[rnk]

Most of the jobs that people point to for English majors are things that any well-mannered educated person who went to college and has decent people and communication skills can do. This is not to say they are not much better educated in language, nuance, literature, much more than me. I'm a math/cs educated software engineer. They have skills I don't have. My tortured syntax here might be indicative of my terrible writing skills but I think I actually communicate reasonably well in my field.

All those english majors who could do a lot of things need more skills to get started in other fields. Partly that would be because companies are interested in more skills coming out of college. But this whole thing comes down to lack of good jobs for english majors.

Writing is a skill, but the vast huge world doesn't need so much of it, or we get along with terrible blog posts etc. The world is at a weird point, at least the western world. A lot of countries have significant labor shortages but many of these shortages don't require the education people might get in such an area in college. Plumbers, engineers, medical field.