you hate but pays well. If you do something that you love and are passionate about, then it doesn't ever feel like work to you. Whenever I hear someone tell me that, then Welles Crowther is the first person that comes to mind. He was working as an equities trader in and told his father that he was thinking about leaving it to go work for the NYFD. Most people may know Welles as the "man in the red bandanna" who saved at least a dozen lives on September 11.

However, I get your point and would probably say the same thing to my kids (if I had any). I say that because I majored in Interdisciplinary Studies at VT and most people would probably consider that to be a "dead major." However, I was fortunate enough to get into government contracting and I don't really use my 3 minors (political science, psychology, and sociology) in my current job. Then again I know a lot of people who majored in one thing in college and currently work in a field that has nothing to do with their major. Some even have a degree in a field that is currently in demand right now (i.e. engineering, computer science, etc) and for a variety of reasons got out of that field.