<p>No, her problem is in the very first paragraph - she didn’t know what she wanted to do, so she just went to graduate school.</p>
<p>Graduate school should never be used as “just the next step” when you can’t figure out what you want to do. She could’ve gotten a job as an administrative assistant and worked a 9-5 right out of undergrad, and taken 2-3 years to decide whether she needed an MA or whether she could go places she wanted to go with her BA. That goes for professional schools too - there are lots of junior humanities majors who panic when thinking about the next year and apply to law school just to have something to do, even if they aren’t sure they want to be lawyers.</p>
<p>I think the problem lies with the lack of career education. There’s a persistent myth that you can’t get a job with a humanities or social science major, when the truth is there are many jobs that are just open as far as major goes. In addition to that, people often have idyllic ideas about certain careers - too much Law & Order for lawyers, for example.</p>