MA in history here. In grad school I taught classes and went to archeological field school, considered pursuing a career digging stuff up, but found a job as an editor for a media research company. Among my fellow grad students from my cohort and the cohorts I interacted with; a few are continuing on the PhD track and plan to try to get professorships, a few of them are from very wealthy families so they don't work really, one got a job blogging for an online newspaper, three found jobs working for museums, two are working on archaeological digs, several got married and are housewives now, I think one guy went to law school, and then the rest are sundry like me who work jobs in various fields.

The process of earning a history degree should confer skills in critical analysis, independent research, writing, et cetera. Stuff that's applicable in a lot of different fields. If my years working for corporate America have taught me anything, it's that a degree in the humanities rarely indicates what you'll end up doing. I have three advanced degrees, my boss has a BA in marketing, her boss has an MBA, his boss has an associate's in nursing, and her boss is a JD/MBA. Try to spot the beneficiary of nepotism!

History isn't like civil engineering or something where you can kind of predict what people will do after they graduate.

After I received my bachelor in history I decided I wanted to do something totally different so I'm now studying finance and insurance.

I do encounter a lot of people working in finance and among them are many with a background in history (they're well liked because of their critic thinking and willingness to look for and see sources- I am told). I do an internship as risk management analyst and only one team member I work with has a PhD (in history..).

Edit: a lot of my old history classmates work in schools now as teachers (not only teaching history but a whole range of subjects) and some are working as an academic at a university.

I'm a lawyer who loves history, and I know quite a few other lawyers with advanced history degrees. I think there's some overlap because law and history both tend to attract people who don't mind research, reading, and writing. On the other hand, one of my coworkers swears that it's just because people who struggle to find jobs in history choose one of the few professional programs with no undergrad class requirements. Frankly, I haven't found that anything more than a rudimentary knowledge of history is really necessary for this job. But whatever the reason, a lot of history students do end up in law.