Jake, I know what you're thinking, and all I have to say is GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE! Certainly there aren't too many people here who make a ton of money (white-colllar) but who gives a shit? Personally, I love learning and academica (I want to maybe become a women's studies/deaf studies professor) but, sometimes I feel like the orginal Educated Idoit. I am smart yes, but I don't really have any indemand job skills, the way many blue-collar workers do.
As for the topic...I am currently doing nothing. I am on SSI/Disabilty b/c I can't afford hearing aids and so I get lots of financal assistance with college. (VR even helps pay for my books!) I'm attending college full-time and also am a freelance writer (working on a piece for Newsweek on why insurance companies should cover hearing aids)