Those “can you fix my Windows for me” types of questions helped me pay the bills during some employment dry spells. At least in my experience, friends and families don’t expect you to work for free when you’re “between jobs”.
Bachelor of Arts here. Majored in English, minored in political science, and was about two courses shy of getting a second minor in history.
I also just completed a university certificate program in Occupational health and Safety.
BA and MA in English. Finished PhD coursework and exams in English, with “doctoral minors” in comparative literature and philosophy, before belatedly deciding against an academic career and dropping out.
I learned a lot, but if I had it over, I wouldn’t do English. Probably philosophy, math, or both.
Another geographer here; and yes GIS is a big field for that (and growing quickly too).
Started out in Electrical Engineering but got bored after a year and a half. I was in and out and back and forth between the local community college and the University for a few more years before stopping all together. Fast forward five or six years and I’m married with a kid so I decide to go back to University for a CS degree. Initially it was to be a BA degree but when I found out that I could take fewer Spanish class and few extra Math classes and end up with a BS, I went that route. Probably should have gotten a minor in Math but didn’t. Anyhow, I did get a chance to actually use my degree for a few years there but not so much anymore.
Microbiology. My diploma is freaking TINY.
I started out in chemistry until I discovered that I didn’t enjoy labs and someone showed me what a group was. After that, it was math all the way.
I majored in Electrical Engineering all the way through–no changes in major. I toyed with the idea of a minor in Math, but didn’t pursue it. My job has nothing to do with my major (software testing, troubleshooting, and general guru), but I do some minor hardware design on the side for various things.
For engineering and science types: if you’re not naturally good at writing and speaking, take some classes. I don’t care that they don’t count toward your degree, they will do you good. Being able to communicate well will make you stand out in geeky fields. An interpersonal communications class, a public speaking class, and a composition class of some kind will cover the basics.
As a bonus, the courses often inadvertently provide hints as to how to manipulate managers and other bureaucrats–think of it as programming drones. 
In Spain, both History and Geography are specialties within “Philosophy and History”. A friend who studied Geography works as a Draftswoman in an engineering firm; my ISO-12000 teacher had a PhD in Geography (for his thesis, he used tree sampling to study the weather for the last several thousand years); I know others who teach Social Sciences courses in Junior High/High School.
Computer Science. I graduated in it and still have a career in it 20 years later.
YMMV, but for me its always been, “Can’t you just take a look at it? I’m sure it won’t take that long,” and it ends up being a backup-data-wipe-disk-install-windows-find-drivers-install-software job that takes all day and I would usually charge (the equivalent of) $75 to do. I don’t mind doing that for my parents or good friends (though most of them are also geeks) but for random acquaintances and distant relatives? It’s a little galling.
I wasn’t really complaining about that, so much as the situation where you’re at a party or something, and someone finds out you studied CS, and then it’s, “Oh, maybe you can tell me why, when I click on <some button> in <some obscure software> it does <some weird thing>…”. The geek’s equivalent of the physicians complaint at being asked, “Could you take a look at this lump on my back?” at parties.
(Nowadays, I tell them I study cryptography, and that if I told them any more, I’d have to kill them… :p)
That’s not bad, but I always opt for “Sorry, I use Linux. I don’t do Windows.” Works like a charm.
I double majored in Political Science and French Language and Literature (I started out taking French classes to fulfill a requirement, did so well I started a minor and realized it would only take a few more to double major).
I’m now a corporate trainer - neither major directly applies but I do leverage my writing skills on a daily basis (clearly articulating a point and excellent grammar are both skills derived from my college experience).
Anthropology and psychology.
Double major in English and History with a minor in Chemistry.