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Take a look inside the classrooms of English majors. What (who) do you see? Not a lot of guys.
If you're a female, you can find any satisfying job that doesn't make a lot of money but is enjoyable, fun, and fulfilling. Eventually, you'll find a guy with a practical degree. You'll get married and have kids and stay at home with the kids.
Take a look inside the classrooms of English majors. What (who) do you see? Not a lot of guys.
If you're a female, you can find any satisfying job that doesn't make a lot of money but is enjoyable, fun, and fulfilling. Eventually, you'll find a guy with a practical degree. You'll get married and have kids and stay at home with the kids.
Man, I earned my degree in English and earn about as much as my wife, a VP of finance, working for myself.
Take a look inside the classrooms of English majors. What (who) do you see? Not a lot of guys.
If you're a female, you can find any satisfying job that doesn't make a lot of money but is enjoyable, fun, and fulfilling. Eventually, you'll find a guy with a practical degree. You'll get married and have kids and stay at home with the kids.
Hah, both my fiance and I are English majors. I guess we'll both just stay home with our nonexistent kids.
I'm majoring in English and plan on getting my Bachelors soon. I was wondering what type of things I can do with it besides teach. Im not even taking the right classes to be a teacher. I know it's not as practical as say an engineering degree. My math skills are too weak to major in something that involves a lot of math. I am not too worried about my job prospects. I feel like if im persistsnt enough I will find something decent that I will also enjoy. my goal is not to be rich but i dont want to be barely making either. I don't want to hear "work at McDonalds." I would like to hear from posters that either have an English degree or know someone that does and what was done with it. Thanks!
Take a look inside the classrooms of English majors. What (who) do you see? Not a lot of guys.
If you're a female, you can find any satisfying job that doesn't make a lot of money but is enjoyable, fun, and fulfilling. Eventually, you'll find a guy with a practical degree. You'll get married and have kids and stay at home with the kids.
I'm a guy and there are plenty of other guys in my English classes.
"What can you do with an English degree besides teach?"
A degree in English gives you a nice rounded education but doesn't exactly open up doors of opportunity as do more specialized degrees. As a former newspaper editor-publisher I hired a few reporters with English degrees over the years. The last English major I hired had a masters, iirc, or maybe it was a double major in psychology and English. She was hired as a typesetter earning slightly more than minimum wage and at that was probably overpaid.
What an English degree should have done is taught you how to reason, organize your thoughts and communicate well. From there it's up to you to sell yourself for the job you want and then to use what you've learned to succeed in the job and to grow into the next one. People often scoff at English degrees, but if you use what you should have learned, it can take you far.
Just as an example, when I was a high school sports jock, the young sports editor for the local weekly had an English degree. A few years later I worked for that same newspaper, and he had become managing editor. A few years after that he bought a newspaper, and when he took a temporary job as the governor's press secretary I "replaced" him at his newspaper. He went on to become publisher of one of the larger newspaper organizations in the country, then manager of a large chain of radio stations, and as of a few years ago was CEO of a major banking company. That "degree" didn't land him any of those jobs, but his formal education and his drive to continue learning took him through an interesting and very successful career.
How is the newspaper business in the days of electronic media, free media, and citizen journalists?
People I know with English degrees would get writer/editor positions in government, however, usually the jobs are not entry-level (just out of college).
Marketing is another area that seems to draw people with degrees in English studies. I also knew a few such majors who worked in sales.
How is the newspaper business in the days of electronic media, free media, and citizen journalists?
Depends. The paper I used to write for is still afloat, I just moved back into education, or I'd likely still be the editor there. The paper my brother writes for is doing well, as is the one my brother-in-law writes for. A lot depends on your niche and market. Also, whether you are writing for a print newspaper or online media, writing's still writing. Most of the journalists I personally know do both.
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