10 Most Worthless Majors

With a horrible economy and tourism suffering seems like less people are traveling. That doesn't bode well for the Hospitality Management industry. Unemployment is at 9.1 percent for hospitality workers and the average starting salary is $32,000. Could be worse. You could be working in hospitality services as a a bartender, line cook or waitress.

Dreams of a Jurassic adventure, or your search for the Ark of the Covenant should be put on hold for people who majored in Archeology or Anthropology in 2012. With a starting salary of $28,000 and an unemployment rate of 10.5 percent the future is even more bleak than the past. Although it would explain Indiana Jones' nasty clothes.

You think it pays to work at the Buffalo News? This is the era of blogging and digital media. Nobody curls up with a cup of coffee and the newspaper anymore. They get the news on their I-pad. And do we get our news from respected news journalists? Hardly! While some mainstream journalists write their own blogs, most come from underpaid freelancers who fancy a subject and our willing to barf out their thoughts for $20 a post. Wait, did I just insult myself? And if that wasn't enough, some 13 year-old kid takes a shot of a tornado on his cell phone and they call him a news tracker. Trying feeding your family on $32,000, that is if your job hasn't been taken by a blogger.

There was time that English Lit teachers made fun of journalists, saying we wrote like Neanderthals. Well guess what Professor Homo Erectus, your sacred English language pays crap. And if you thought the English language was being bastardized by journalists, have you seen what twitter and texting has done to it? LMAO!

In his 1978 album, Wild and Crazy Guy, Steve Martin tells the audience the thing about philosophy is you just remember enough to screw you up for the rest of your life. Martin majored in philosophy and was able to turn it into a stand up act that made him a multi-million dollar actor. Something you likely will not do with your $30,000 a year job analyzing the metaphysical and subjective idealism of weather he who farts in church sits in his own pew.

If Frank Lloyd Wright were an architect in Buffalo today, he would earn about $36,000 out of college. And he would be happy he intentionally designed the Darwin Martin House with wide open spaces because he wouldn't be able to afford any furniture. Sure would feel a whole lot better knowing that the person who designed the building you work in was paid well enough to care that it was structurally sound.

Have you ever met a graphic designer? Of course you have. Just about everyone thinks they're a graphic designer. If you own a computer and have an illegal copy of photoshop, just about anybody can put out some half-way decent graphics.Colleges are graduating too many graphic designers and corporations are laying them off even faster. Good ole supply and demand. Good luck finding a job at a magazine or newspaper company and if you want to work for a website, they don't exactly require flashy images. My God, look at what I picked.

Unless your name is Spielberg, Cameron, Scorsese or Lucas, nothing says starving artists like Film, video, and photographic arts. About 12.9% of graduates in this major end up unemployed or worse, living in their mom's basement. So the next time that guy at the bar tries to drop the "I'm a film-maker line," realize that his base salary is about $30,000.

You were great as Curly McLain in your high schools version of "Oklahoma," and when you were in college you starred in "Legally Blonde" the Musical. Want an acting job after college? Get ready to star in "Illegally Blonde" the Porno! It's your best chance to take down some quick cash when you can't find a gig. Average pay for theater around $26,000.

If the Fine Arts were so fine, how come nobody ever makes any money doing it. Even Vincent Van Gogh died unable to support himself. That tattered pair of shoes Van Gogh painted...those were actually his shoes! Know a fine arts major and you likely know a poor person. Unemployment rate over 12 percent and a starting salary around $26,000