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My BS, MS, and Ph.D. are in horticulture with various minors and after I taught horticulture at various colleges, I went into teaching Spanish. Why? I can almost choose my job because the need for learning Spanish is so great around here. Eighteen years ago, there were hardly any Hispanics here and now this county alone has 15,000. I'm paid as if I were in my original field as well; I didn't lose any money by switching fields.
We've strongly suggested that our children pick up useful minors, no matter what majors they choose, and thank the Lord that they've done so. Our oldest has 2 degrees in recreation administration but a couple of years ago, she called and said, "I'm going to teach high school Spanish this fall!" (She had enough Spanish hours to declare a double major.) So she's at this incredible school that spends tons on their Spanish program, the lucky thing!
Anyway, our others are picking up numerous useful minors like education or foreign languages just in case their first field doesn't work out. I hope that some of you guys will do so too!
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