I double majored in History and French and have never been unemployed for longer than about 2 months total in close to 20 years since I graduated. I worked as a clerk in a law firm right out of college -- history is a common undergrad major for lawyers. Then I worked as a web designer (I was self-taught and this was years ago, when those jobs were easier to get). Then I went to grad school for history and started working in libraries. Ultimately I got a Masters in Library Science and now I'm an archivist with faculty rank at a university. This is kind of a unicorn job though: there are not that many jobs like this out there, so you generally have to be a combination of very well qualified and lucky.

I think it's a solid undergrad major for a lot of non-history-related jobs in business. It helps prepare you for work that involves making arguments, writing, or critically examining evidence. To be in a really history-centric job though, you'll probably need to look into grad school, and that can be a dicey proposition. I really wouldn't recommend pursuing a Ph.D. in it unless you cannot imagine doing anything else. Becoming a high school teacher has many more openings than becoming a professor, though. Museum, archives and public history work can be super interesting but hard to get. You might consider looking for a relevant internship or on-campus job while you're still in school to find out if any of these tracks appeal to you.

I'm going in it to be a history teacher. I'm dual majoring in history and secondary education. It depends on your state/school what is required though to get your licensure. Like at my school ( in Indiana) I can just minor in secondary education to get my licensure (but I decided to dual major, looks better on a aplication). You also have to take and pass a state test to be able to teach the subject.

There are not a lot of jobs that specifically want history majors, or that a history major specifically qualifies you for. This is true of most college majors. History is a field of study that gives you quite a lot of useful skills (non-fiction research and writing, complex argumentation about cause/effect/interpretation for large-scale questions, etc.), and as far as incomes by majors go, it does fine relative to other similar majors (e.g. engineers make more straight out of college, big surprise), but, again, don't expect too many people to specifically want history undergraduate degrees. To do specialized work in history you generally need postgraduate education as well (masters, PhD, etc.), but, again, this is true of almost all college majors. History is a great major for people applying to law school, and it works very well in combination with other majors (especially STEM style majors, where history gives you the big picture to couple with the technical details).

So, again, just to clarify. If you major in history, or sociology, or psychology, or English, or philosophy... you're still going to be competitive for many jobs, but in most of those jobs you will not be "doing" history, sociology, psychology, English, philosophy, etc. You'll be an educated person, ideally with skills relevant to the work, doing a job. The down-side of all this is, obviously, that nobody is going to be chasing you down for your degree immediately after graduation, throwing jobs in your face — you're going to have to hustle for them, and convince your future employer why your degree (whatever it is in) makes you the kind of person they want to hire. The up-side is, since unless you are doing a very vocational major (and are willing to commit to specific line of work that comes out of it — e.g., if you're getting a degree in computer science, you'd better be happy being a code monkey), then the question of "which major should you choose?" matters not quite as much from a jobs perspective. So you can pick the one you enjoy doing, whichever that is.

If you're concerned about having a job lined up after college, talk to your counseling office — your major matters a lot less for much of this than, say, relevant experience, and that is what internships, work-study, etc., are for. Even engineers and computer scientists do this kind of stuff to make sure they can get jobs (because the first job is hard for everyone).

I double major'd in history and engineering. My history degree is like an extra layer of skills on top of engineering, for writing, researching, and critical thinking. Unless you go the teaching route you have to combine the history degree with some thing else.

A lot of the history majors I knew ended up in sales roles and did well.