Career unrelated to your degree?

[FuzzieAlum]

I think a lot of people with liberal arts degrees aren't really working in their field, exactly, but maybe that's not the same. I mean, no one needs me to do deconstructionist analysis of Jane Austen (I was an English major), and, well, none of my philosophy major friends are working as professional philosophers.

I do know people who swapped careers by getting an advanced degree (nurses getting MBAs, psych majors going into law). I would be curious to see too how people manage to make a total swap, though, esp. when their initial field is one that does have jobs in it!