By rumpelrumpel – See all my reviews
ANY job with ANY major, huh? I agree with everyone else that the book merits 5 Stars, but only coincidentally, because it has little to do with what one might think, from reading the title. The world is NOT wide open to you if you have a liberal arts degree. As you would suspect, one way or another, you will have to do what everyone else does for so many fields: get another degree. Alan Greenspan was only a music major, the back cover crows, huh? Yeah, Wikipedia says he studied the clarinet for two years. And then he got a BS in Economics, a MS in Economics, and a Ph D in Economics. Somehow, I’d suspected as much. Along these lines, it could just as easily have been entitled, “How to Get Hired as a Surgeon if You’re Only a High School Dropout.” Well, first you get your GED, and then…

It would also have been much more useful if the author had gone through the Occupational Outlook Handbook and listed those careers that *normally* require a specific degree, but where he knew that, in certain situations, hiring exceptions are made for non-specialists who were somehow able to learn enough on their own (and how they did this).

Yes, some good examples are in the book, but only as motivators – one still won’t know exactly which fields are closed off to nonmajors, and which aren’t. Any Job With Any Major – yeah, right!