<p>Valley Accountant: “A BA in English is not worth 50k in debt.”</p>
<p>My mostly-retired business partner has an English degree from a mid-level NESCAC school, and his career would comfortably have covered $50K in debt. It went like this: major company sales training program for a year, manufacturing management for a year, 5 years in human resources, consulting firm business manager morphing into a consultant then consulting project leader. With enough at age 48 in his pension to retire, he moved into doing consulting and retained search on his own until he stepped into a mostly-retired role at 60.</p>
<p>My friend from high school in a not-so-prosperous city of 60,000 also has an English degree from a different mid-level NESCAC school. His career started as a podunk newspaper reporter and he eventually became a Washington Post editor. He is now a senior executive with one of the major broadcast TV networks.</p>