Humanities jobs are almost gone, you'd have to get a job as a teacher teaching humanities. Everything is done with computers these days. They have to get a good enough job to pay off $80K in student loans, and clerk and retail jobs won't do that.
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One of my favorite blogs is acoup.blog: “A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.” The author critiques modern pop culture portrayals of history and warfare, and does so in an entertaining and informative way. He’s a history professor—one of those humanities folks.
So, no, not everything is “done with computers these days.” Sure, the blog is served by a computer, but the juice that makes it worth the squeeze comes from a good old fashioned humanities-shaped brain, and my life is richer for it.
Your core premise, though; that I agree with. There aren’t many jobs in the humanities. But that misses my point, which is that humanities have value beyond the financial.