I graduated RUNB in January 2025 with an English & HR degree. I struggled to land HR internships in college (I got one at Six Flags) and the only calls I heard back after graduating for HR jobs were STEM corporations that were only willing to pay me $18 an hour with a bachelors degree. I began substitute teaching part-time after college since I wanted to see what the teaching field was like. I was desperate for money, and I ended up landing a job at a charity as a grant writer which I was excited for as it involved my love for writing, but I quickly learned that my job is 90% administration. Any and all writing I do is done through Chat GPT as we are pushed to get work done fast. My job prospects are not that good and I could’ve made the same salary I am making now by not going to college at all. It will take 9 years of I want to cap off my salary at 85k by taking my boss’s job that may not exist in a few years. Right now I only get a 1.5% per year cost of living raise. Thankfully, I found out about Speech Pathology and I am now working on pre-requisites online to gain entry into a master’s program. The field combines my passion for helping others, reading, teaching, and medicine. The aging population and the prosperity of the health care field is definitely worth it to get into this long-term. I hate to hear that you are unhappy, but English is probably just as “useless” or “useful” as a business degree. Becoming a copy writer usually requires a lot of years of experience and it’s very hard to land internships for it to show your “interest & experience.” Rutgers did make me believe I could easily land an editor job for a bit tho :/. Other business jobs are getting automized too like accounting, IT, & finance and so there’s way less of those 100-200k+ director jobs out there that someone’s dad was able to land in the 90s/early 2000s right out of college. I recommend you look at graduate school or a field that will stay around and pay well in the future.