Choosing your major was one of the most significant decisions of your college career.
Students choose to major in history for different reasons.
It had all the elements I enjoyed, especially working on something 'live'. It is an academic discipline that allows resesarch to be applied to something that is occuring or has occurred. I believed it would offer me the broadest scope of education, that is, the most 'liberal' of the liberal arts. I'm convinced it was a great choice. It is not, however, a meal ticket of a last step to a career.