I'm an English major myself, but if I'd been smarter going into school, I'd be an anthropologist studying folklore. OMG, I wish I were smarter when I started school. I would love to be an expert on some bit of folklore that no layperson would ever think of as "folklore" (because it's not a fairy tale, of course). Or, you know, what my dream job has been since high school: researching links between transmission of folk practices (music, stories, art, clothing design, food...) and exchange/evolution of language between different communities.

Instead, I studied English, because everyone told me I should...

*sigh* I wish you could act like a Ghost of Majors Past and visit a lot of the students who make a similar decision, not just because someone told them they "should" study English or whatever, but because the idea of their major having the word "folklore" or "mythology" in it sounds too flakey to them. When, in fact, it's about studying things that are deeply important to people, the exchanges through which people create culture with each other, and it's pretty much just as useful to generic-your future career as that English degree, if not moreso.

Every damned year, my program goes through the same process of getting very few declared majors, and, it seems like, a whole lot of other people who expressed real interest in us, but who don't do it... and yet who really wind up doing work in whatever major they're in that they really should have been doing with us.