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I'm doing better than all the people I graduated high school with as well - and I did an Arts degree. (English, and I now work for the BC government managing a huge Comms portfolio). Every internship I did in university was paid. I actually worked for Sauder through Worklearn for a year doing their social media/communications, in addition to the UBC Press, a couple of newspapers, some provincial government stuff, and then the job I have now. I'm making over 100k a year in my first job out of uni - that came from networking, making the right connections and getting experience - but it also came from being skilled with language in a way that I always got asked about in interviews. I always had to submit writing samples of my published work. That gave me an edge over the Commerce students I was competing for jobs against. I was just a better writer, and in a world where so much is language and media driven that is absolutely essential. I was in the Greek system at UBC a couple years ago and a friend who's still at UBC sent me a link to this discussion. I thought it was pretty funny so thought I'd add my experience and practical advice for Arts majors from the other side - while you're in university, you'll get a lot of people who desperately want to think they're smarter or better because they're in a certain faculty - in reality the jobs go to the most talented people. A Sauder degree is absolutely by no means a ticket to a job at the end, as much as many would like to think.