<p>In general, the more prepared you are for a specific field when you get your bachelor's degree, the less broadly applicable your education was (with the exception of engineering, which seems to cultivate skills that are very broadly applicable). For example, a degree in nursing prepares you really well for nursing, but those skills aren't applicable in many other fields. Subjects like math, philosophy, English, and psychology aren't likely to get you a job in that field, but your training will be be very handy in a broad array of jobs. For example, just about any type of business job will require flawlessly written letters, presentations, and reports at some point. That's when they yell out "Hey, get Jones in here; he was an English major." I have 2 degrees in philosophy and a master's in business, and I work in management. The ways that philosophy trained me to think are FAR more valuable than the specific insights I learned in business classes.</p>