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I'm curious to meet some! I'm a French major and am just curious to see what others have done with similar majors.
I'm not really sure what I will do after college. I thought that I wanted to be a high school French teacher for a really long time (up until this year really). Now I'm not so sure. I'm still considering teaching because I think deep down, that's really my passion. Education has always been very important to me. Even when I was a little kid I wanted to be a teacher. It has been a lifelong dream. I also eventually want to open up my own schools one day. I'd love to start a secondary private school, especially if I could get funding for it so that all students could attend regardless of money. I'd also love to start an immersion elementary school in my hometown where there are limited public choice options.
At the same time, I'm also considering law school as well as work in the Theatre business (behind the scenes). I don't see French being particularly useful for either one. :-/
So anyone else? I'd like to see where others are going with their degree or what they have done with their degree.
At the same time, I'm also considering law school as well as work in the Theatre business (behind the scenes). I don't see French being particularly useful for either one. :-/
just a dose of reality, when a person majors in language they do so because they have become enamonred with the language and the culture itself and there is nothing wrong with that, however, i hope you like teaching because that will be the ONLY thing that slip of paper is good for. I know several foreign language majors, they either double-majored or they ended up as teachers. Those that just got the degree itself and didnt teach, one of them is now at walmart, hating life and his job. I am just saying. As an ex foreign language major myself, tread lightly and think carefully about what you are doing. I would recommend a strong double-major or minor
eh imo the foriegn language majors who struggle in finding gainful employment do so because they had no idea what kind of job they wanted in the first place, not because the degree itself was useless. just having a degree in general will get your foot in the door for many careers, esp if you are intelligent, hardworking, and start doing serious work on career-searching/networking starting your senior year in college at the latest.
really? maybe it depends on location ..i come from a small town..another person i know worked in the payroll dept of a company. She also had a degree in spanish but then i found out she got the job BEFORE she got the degree...and brocco..what jobs would be suited for foreign language majors besides teaching?
really? maybe it depends on location ..i come from a small town..another person i know worked in the payroll dept of a company. She also had a degree in spanish but then i found out she got the job BEFORE she got the degree...and brocco..what jobs would be suited for foreign language majors besides teaching?
hm i know some in finance/investment banking, consulting, gov jobs, risk management, research, business, marketing, legal claims (those are all the jobs that are unrelated to the major anyway). a lot do go on to grad school and/or get sucked into academia. there are definitely plenty of jobs still that only require a degree in general and not a degree in anything specific. of course if you're dumb and lazy like many college students these days you will probably struggle
It depends on the language. People with knowledge of E European langs, Central Asian langs, Arabic, Chinese and Spanish can get jobs with US gov't security agencies, like the NSA. You can get a job as a Romance Languages Department administrator in a university. If you like teaching, you should go into teaching, the public schools need good teachers, if you don't mind "classroom management", the discipline side of teaching. For job security in the schools, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a second discipline, like Spanish or English as a Second Language, or Special Ed (those last two rarely get cut when there are school budget cuts). Conceivably, with a little background in economic development, or Francophone Africa, you could get a job with the US gov't aid agency that distributes foreign aid to Africa.www.africafoundation.org
Lawyers are getting to be a dime-a-dozen nowadays, though the theater angle sounds interesting. Do you have a background in theater? My vote is with teaching. You'll need some education courses for that.
wow i didnt think of that...maybe i need to expand my horizons? I live near a big city in my city and ALL the business jobs that i have seen even marketing required a degree in business. Maybe through networking they were able to do this? Yeah my friend will probably end up in academia..check this out..he actually has a friend that works in HR in houston and he STILL cannot work even there because she told him that he didnt have a business degree..now doesnt that suck?
wow i didnt think of that...maybe i need to expand my horizons? I live near a big city in my city and ALL the business jobs that i have seen even marketing required a degree in business. Maybe through networking they were able to do this? Yeah my friend will probably end up in academia..check this out..he actually has a friend that works in HR in houston and he STILL cannot work even there because she told him that he didnt have a business degree..now doesnt that suck?
These days, with so much unemployment, employers can be really picky. They can require a lot more education than is really needed for a job, because the people are out there who have those qualifications and are unemployed. The ante has gone way up in the job search market.
yeah and thats a shame because at the end of the day, we are all just trying to work and get ahead in life and not have to depend on family and/or gov to help us out and some of us(like myself) do not have that option. I just tried to look up some marketing jobs, they either want a degree in marketing or communications and this was in new york.
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