In the current environment for recent university graduates, finding a job in which your degree is suitable is quite difficult. By choosing certain degrees, you can hugely effect the likelihood of finding a suitable job. With a large portion of university students attending university for courses without direct job opportunities, this is quite a big problem for the country. If you choose to study a course like medieval literature, then the professional opportunities created by that are severely lessened. You may need to take a job which is only loosely related to it. Choosing a degree with a broad subject matter, like a writing course, or mathematics, can greatly increase your chances of finding a job with your degree. You may need to accept a position which doesn’t closely relate to your degree, but you can still gain some benefit from having a degree. One issue with taking a position in an unskilled profession is that the longer you stay out of a relevant position, the less value the degree holds.