its definately true that one can get a good job from geography background & having further skills in gis - planning. there are some more areas to get work easily as a geographer like natural resource management etc.
but one thing that i would like to mention that geography is not a professional training like hotel management or software development ...its a way to analyse things spacially but in various era the people who gave thier life to study geography focus on that aspect of study that can earn livelihood to them too. thats y we can see the approach and focus of study geography remain changing time to time .
so if we study geography in today's globalised world ..having focus on urban & regional issues , accuire desired technology like ..GIS ...train ourseves for working in professional settings ...project management & report writing ..... then we can may be useful for so many NGO'S, DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS , GOVERNMENTS .
FUTURE OF GEOGRAPHERS IS VERY BRIGHT ......THIS SUBJECT REALLY ALLOW TO LEARN ...THAT CAN HELP US TO GROW ....HELP US TO MAKE EARTH A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE.

CHEERS

AJEET SINGH
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE -URBAN MANAGEMENT & PLANNING
ALL INDIA INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT ,AHMEDABAD INDIA
ajeet_geo@yahoo.com