Just wondering how you all are faring and if you ever found a real job. <3
if you majored in humanities in college what are you doing now?
The Lisan al Gaib…
did u go to a good school or a rando one
Good
same
What sort of accounting?
English literature major, now a winemaker
You’re the foot guy who smashes the grapes though, aren’t you.
Used to be. Now I'm the guy who tells the foot guy when and how to squish the grapes
That rocks, congrats
The dream
English / philosophy. Lawyer
Same
Do you like it? Also @ u/orangeessayhelp
Yes
I love the law but I really hate the profession.
I get to think and write in the ways that drew me to my majors, and I’m lucky to be in a relatively creative practice. I get to quote Melville and stuff in my writing, pontificate on my lil theories and write my lil proofs.
I would only recommend the law to someone who enters the profession with a clear strategy. I’m kind of autistic tho, and I was doomed to be a lawyer from birth 🤷🏾♀️
how do you become a lawyer when majoring in english and philosophy? did you start university all over after you were done?
Are you implying that I lacked the requisite skills studying English and philosophy? And that I had to somehow learn those before starting a career in law?
Or are you asking if I had to undertake an additional degree?
yeah the latter. law is like a whole different study you need to do, so you just got a degree and then went back to square one studying a different subject?
Yes. In the US you can’t study law as an undergraduate. In the UK, you can. But it’s not necessary to be a lawyer. I’m glad I had a wider understanding of disciplines other than law
You don’t study law as a undergrad in the us.
You’re right. I didn’t study law as an undergrad in England either.
I meant to reply to the other person
Oh
You don’t study law as a undergrad in the us.
I majored in history and now I work in sales (commercial lighting mostly)
English lit. I'm a union building engineer, basically operating extremely large HVAC equipment. I spend 80% of my time reading in our shop and 20% turning a pipe wrench
This was my major/minor, and the only reason I don’t regret is is because I went to grad school for a profession that’s in high demand.
can i ask what you went to grad school for? i’m graduating with those degrees soon and need inspo lol
I went to grad school for UX design (technically human computer interaction). This was over a decade ago though, and now the field is very saturated.
Is this sub just 50% English majors?
Creative writing, fluffer
I tap dance on the street corner while STEM tech lords toss me spare change from their 24k teslas
I rue the day I chose not to learn to code
Back at college studying a stem degree LOL
planning a cost-effective funeral :)
History and Education. Work for the railroad now (office job)
Creative Writing. Unemployed.
Write a more creative resume
Blue collar. Kill me
I have an international affairs degree and a few business minors how do I get that kind of job?
Dropped out now work managing part time swim instructors and life guards
Politics and Philosophy, work in music.
What kind of work?
Salaried email job, pay kinda stinks to be honest but you get a decent amount of free shit like tickets and records so there's that. I fell kind of backwards into it at university, a couple of free internships later got a full time thing.
finally swallowed the ITpill with a smile on my face (more of a dispatcher rn, but lots of upward mobility)
classics (specialising in Ancient Greek for extra uselessness) & now a strategist in a marketing agency. might go back for my masters tho just because it's fun asf
sooo based
lmao the degree or the work??
Software engineer lol
History. Now a minor civil servant
Degree in History. Now I teach HS English.
Fine arts / English - do software ux stuff for a second hand clothing company
Went to grad school, and now I pretend to teach Latin to college kids. I kind of regret it; my grad school experienced sucked and it feels like I wasted years of my life with nothing – in terms of friends, relationships, money – to show for it. I've also realized I hate teaching people who aren't interested in the material, and I don't have the heart to push people who don't want to be pushed, so I've been trying to figure out another job I can go into.
Philosophy. Teaching in Asia.
Poli sci masters, was in a Phd program but dropped out after a semester cause it was the heart of covid and I realized I was just fucking done with school and homework (also drinking a lot but…lol)
now I do what I was always destined to do: work the family business (accounting)
High paying government job
History & film. Had every job under the sun for a bit & now I’m in pr.
Medical school
Poli Sci, Enterprise Software Sales
Account manager for a small company. But I intend on doing a masters in data analysis
Anthropology. Program manager, 87k WFH.
food service
Studied history at uni and currently work in the civil service
comparative religion to moonshiner to youth minister to therapist pipeline
How do I get one of those government jobs as a humanities major?
I had never heard of instructional design but it looks pretty cool - what’s the job market like for it ?
Job market for ID is weird atm. It's lumped in with tech documentation writing as one of those jobs that people getting out of teaching can pivot into. On one hand you've got a lot of new people suddenly entering, but the market also seems to be doing pretty well.
Still, at least your actual qualifications and experience put you ahead of the pack, which is increasingly important for these sorts of positions, I find. A hiring manager once told me I was hired for a tech writer position because I was the only person interviewed who'd bothered to even make a portfolio. Absolutely blew my mind.
Marketing in the spirits industry mashallah god has been good
Marketing is not a humanities degree
That was not my degree
Oh okay, what was your degree in?
Sociology
History, now a researcher. Really a stroke of luck