The purpose of college is not to provide you with skills required by industry. Its to make you more aware of your world and its history and how things work. Unless you study some specialized field and plan to work in it, like chemistry, there is no guarantee you'll ever use your degree in the workplace. The purpose of the University is to educate you, not vocational training. It teaches you how to think and how to learn, not what you need to know. You get THAT on the job. All your major does for you is that it gives you enough detail in that one field so that you'll know how much there is to be learned when you finally get a job.

Any employer will tell you that all a degree tells him about an employee is that he can learn, he can put up with crap, and he can learn how a system works. My degrees were in astronomy and mathematics, but I never worked as either one. In fact, the only thing I ever learned in college that directly led to a job opportunity was a one semester course I took in Fortran programming.

After I started working as a Geographer and Cartographer, I went back to school to pick up job-related skills to pad my resume. It made me much more marketable, but there wasn't one single thing I learned in the Master's program that I ever used on the job. Nothing. Nada. But it was worth a premium in my $alary!

Its certainly not fair to bright young kids with good high school records or military or trade school or extensive
on-the-job experience, but don't blame the colleges for that. Complain to the guys in Human Resources and to the bosses. We don't make up the rules, they do.

Don't go to college to get a better job. Go to become a better person.