I think my case toes the line. I graduated in '09 with a BS in Applied Economics, most of my work was statistics/stata oriented. I had planned on going to law school. Well the floor fell out from under everything the summer before I graduated. What was I to do? No one wanted to hire me, all my work through college was in sysadmin/computer repair work. I was just a generalist and going for more school (MBA or law) didn't guarantee work, just more debt.

It took me two years of rambling around and finally I went back towards what I was always good with, computers. Flash forward 6 years later and I'm a developer who is making a comfortable living. I'm glad I have my degree in econ, I love the field, but I do feel like there is window of us who did get screwed as we made choices on the current economy, not the future economy 4 years later.