The answer is pretty straightforward. Masters degrees in anything liberal arts-related are useless. They serve just one purpose and one purpose alone: to groom students for doctoral programs in the same subject. That’s it. Period. They will not help your career, and in all likelihood will likely hurt it.
Unless you follow through to the logical extent and earn a doctorate in that same subject, you’re stuck with a useless degree. You will likely be lacking in real-world job experience, and as such, employers will not want to hire you. Moreover, most will flat-out tell you that you’re over-qualified because you have a masters. Congrats, you painted yourself into a corner with a useless degree.
My own father fell into this trap, and never really recovered. Due to horrible career guidance from his parents, he thought he wanted to be an academic. He eventually earned a masters degree in German literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore – a fine school, to be sure – and even went so far as “ABD” (all but dissertation) until he eventually realized how frivolous liberal arts academia truly was and discovered, in turn, that he wanted no further part of it. But by that time he had painted himself into the aforementioned, proverbial corner. He ended up spending the majority of his career as a struggling auto parts salesman.
My mother was in the same boat. She earned her masters degree in music history at the University of Louisville, which became a huge help to her as a full-time, stay-at-home mom. She remained such until I was a sophomore in college, but the only job she could land was a teacher’s instructional aid at my high school, which paid peanuts. Not making the connection with the uselessness of her own masters degree, she still tried to steer me into an academic-oriented masters degree when I was about to graduate from college. Even now it makes me want to bang my head on the table.
Even if you follow through with earning a doctorate, good luck landing a job with that. Unlike certain industries that value PhDs in, say, engineering or a hard science (physics, chemistry, computer science, etc.), a liberal arts PhD will qualify you for just one thing: teaching at a college. That’s it. Worse yet, all those professor positions in the humanities are currently full. In other words, nobody’s hiring for liberal arts professors. It’s therefore not worth it.
Focus on something marketable instead. Earn a degree in it (associates or bachelors, depending on what the desired line of work requires), get experience however you can (internships, etc.) and get a job. Then, once you land a job, put your nose to the grindstone every day, gain experience, and grow. Or, pick up a trade. That can be a rewarding job that pays well, too. In either case, get that job, and let us all learn and grow together.
But seriously, avoid grad school in the liberal arts like the plague. Doing so will be of further help to you as we all learn and grow together.