It depends what you take. In some majors a degree is useless for getting a job. In others like engineering you have a 90% plus chance at a great job.
For example. A friend of my daughter got an English degree and ended up working at a call center for minimum wage. She has to go back and get a law degree and is now working as an arbitrator in DC.
My daughter got a PhD in civil engineering and had 3 interviews this year and got two offers. Myself, I am an electronics engineer and have never been out of work all my life. I know someone who got a Japanese degree 8 years ago and has never found a job that uses it.
Same for Political Science. Basically, the majors with al ot of hard math lead to jobs. The ones without a lot of hard math rarely lead to a job that needs a degree.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.