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I'm surprised that so many of the people intelligent enough to comment on this strip seem to think that the sole point of education is to get a high paying job in an office and then spend the rest of their lives paying off their mortgage and commuting to work from the suburbs. My great liberal arts education (paid for by my generous parents) taught me how to think creatively and independently and gave me the confidence and skills to live an exciting and adventurous life in many different "jobs", from small business management to legal research to teaching English to kids in the developing world. I find Scott's dark humor delightful and his view of human behavior quite accurate, but I pity his characters whose rare pleasures are so barren of deep joy and inner peace. I bet none of them ever read books from other countries or other centuries.
SA has a BA in economics. Where I went to school, that was a "Liberal Art's" degree. At their best, a liberal arts degree teaches you to think, instead of just make a living. My BS in economics was more "practical". I had to learn how to think how to think on my own.
I graduated with a degree in English and I am now working a tech job (QA for a software company). Of course, I still have writing as my first love, but computers are a close second. :)
I graduated with a Degree in history and English. Off all my English major friends, about a third of us are in grad school, the other two thirds now works either in really cool jobs like publishing, editing, writing, or for random non-profits, or are working at bookstores until they decide if they want to tezch high school, go to grad school, or go live on a commune. It's not true that English majors are doomed to the unemployment line. Writing is a very valuable skill. They are just flaky and can't decide what they want to do.
