How To Choose A Career, published by Kaplan Educational Centers and Newsweek, rates humanities jobs:

Anthropologists:  UP.  "Man's origins still a mystery -- the ultimate search for our roots."

Chinese scholars:  UP.  "A rising superpower -- and the world's biggest market."

Technology journalists:  UP.  "Explaining geekspeak to the nondigerati."

Linguistics:  DOWN.  "Parse this sentence -- 'Would you like fries with that?'"

Romance languages:  DOWN.  "Few jobs to be had in the world of dead white men."

Russian studies:  DOWN  "With communists out and no cold war, this field's a nyet."