What's your major--Or What are you going to do with that degree?

“What are you going to do with that?”  This question seems to be thrown around quite a bit around graduation season or when new college freshman pack-up and head to college.  The conversation typically goes like this, “What are you/did you study?” “Art history,” says the excited young person. “Oh, so what are you going to do with that?” 

In my case, the conversation is a little bit different.  I tell people I studied theology and then went to seminary, and if they don’t ask me the infamous question of what I’m going to do with that, the question is usually much more direct.  They ask if I’m going to be a pastor or even if I am “going to take a church.”  And so, repeatedly, for the past nine years, since I was first a freshman, I have not known how to answer that question.