I have met a LOT of people who thought that their degree in English, psychology, art history, and the like was going to get them a $60,000/year job fresh out of school. Heck, even some of the artists I know expected to be able to pay off their $80,000 in student loans with their art degree.

Now they sit around their parents house whenever they're not at their part time retail job and complain about how "the economy" screwed them over.