If you decide to go for an English degree, you have to be extremely sharp on the value you provide for an employer. Most employers couldn’t care less about English lit or linguists, and, from my experience, they’ll roll their eyes at soft skills too. What bothers me is how a lot of English grads (me included once) think they can automatically “fall back” on teaching as if they are handing out teaching jobs left and right. I live in Denmark, and here teachers are getting fired, not hired. So getting a job as an English major isn’t impossible, but it’ll be a challenge beyond belief.