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You Ask, What Can I Do With This Major, And We Provide The Answers

By Thomas Ryerson


The question eats away at no small number of arts and humanities students, and quite a few science students, too. After you've done all that work, you wind up with a major in...what? What have you: demography, paleo-anthropology, environmental studies, physics, classics, liberal studies, organizational psychology and...not English lit? You didn't do a major in English lit, did you?

Well, don't fret about it. It's all water under the bridge, now. The fact is you did do all that hard work; put in those long, long nights of cramming for your exams, parties passed on to hit the books, and now here you are. Finally, a light bulb goes off in your head: Heck, what am I going to do now? What can I do with this major? Admittedly, this can be a daunting revelation. The real world is suddenly posed right outside your dorm room door. But there's no reason to panic; I'm here to help. And, no, you haven't just flushed the last four years of your life down the drain.

Having said all that, though, a little ounce of prevention might be in order to get us started. It is possible of course that you may be thinking about this before registering for a major. Well, aren't you clever? If that's the case, here are some tips to get you headed in the right direction.

1. To start, it's a good idea to figure out what area of study would interest you. If you haven't done that, do it immediately. One good approach is to look over the course offerings at your preferred college. You could try to rank them by hierarchical preference.

2. Once you've decided, talk to people. Ask around for connections who studied the same major. What are they doing, now?

3. Talk to someone whose job is to know the ropes of just such matters. If you're still in high school, or even colleges to which you've been accepted (or even those you are considering for application), they have counselors and advisers. Providing you advice on just such matters is what they're paid to do. Make the best use of the resources at your disposal.

4. And if you're feeling wild and want to do something totally off the chart, whatever, just, like, do a focused Google search. You could try something like, what the heck can I do with this English lit major? (You might actually find something.)

No need to fret though if it's too late for such proactive prevention. The fact of the matter is that all those suggestions in points 2 through 4 are just as good for figuring out what to do when you already have your major. Find what have been the career options and choices of those with the same major. However forlorn you feel about your future, rest assured that the college adviser has heard it all before. Furthermore, lots of universities these days have career centers. Don't think for a second that you're the first major in Renaissance poetry to wander in looking for career leads.

Be sure though, not to pass over that Google search. The Big G, you know, is the fount of all knowledge and wisdom. (Okay, maybe you actually have to bring the wisdom, but for knowledge you can't beat it.) For instance, such a search reveals that many universities have online resources great for just this sort of thing. For instance, you can check out the University of California career center online.

By doing so, I was able to learn about the career options for dozens of majors. Even some pretty esoteric ones were listed. Heck, they might even have yours!

Get this you English majors; you can pull in an average salary of $43,589. (You can buy a lot of copies of Canterbury Tales for that moolah.) And among your career options, you can get work as an analyst, an editorial assistant, a product development coordinator or even...wait for it...a college adviser! So you can lean back with an air of confident whimsy, put your feet up on the desk, hands behind your head and smile knowingly every time a new terrified grad stumbles into your office and nervously asks: uh, what can I do with this major?

So, hold your heads high all you grads, even if you did major in the Victorian novel or the mating customs of the Australian Aborigine. Hope springs eternal for a real future. And, who knows, maybe even a pay check!




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