<p>I have a number of friends who were arts majors and are working in fields not related to their college fields of study. The same with many liberal arts and other majors. My son has a BFA, and though he is now actively doing the starving artist route, he is open to looking for other types of jobs if he isn’t where he wants to be in the next year or so. </p>
<p>Unless you can find a school that actually has kids doubling with a BM and another degree in something like math, I find it a difficult thing to do. My son had trouble finding voice and acting programs that could be cobbled together. He ended up in MT for that reason. Though in theory, schools were quick to say it could be done, one glance at a sample semester schedules showed that it was physically impossible to do much of the time. </p>
<p>I know a young lady who did get a BFA in music performance with her instrument and also a BS in business at CMU in 4 years. It was a rough go for her in terms of scheduling. She could not do it with any other major, is what her mother told me. </p>
<p>My oldest son is 27 and has had a rough go finding the type of work he wanted at a living wage and he is not in the arts. Many of his friends in the arts are employed now in fields other than music, and seem to be doing just as well. It does seem to work out. Other than those kids who majored in disciplines known to be good for employment like engineering, nursing, accounting, a lot of young people with all kinds of majors have had a rough time finding gainful employment and it’s been a lottery in terms of what they have ended up doing.</p>