The Truth About What Kind Of Job You Can Get Into With Your Major

The “language” majors go on to be teachers, join the healthcare field, and work in law
English/literature majors work in health/medicine, teach, write for a living, and become lawyers
Philosophy/Religion major end up teaching, but they follow a similar pattern to English majors, and join the healthcare, sales, and law fields.
Culture Studies students go heavy into law
History students go into law, banking, healthcare, and teaching mainly
Political Studies majors go into law and banking, too.
Econ majors go into banking, sales, and law
Psych majors go into health, teaching, banking and law
Geoscience majors do pretty much everything
Biology majors go into healthcare
Chemistry majors do too
Physics majors teach other physics majors or get into medicine
Computer Science majors get into tech
Math majors go into banking, teaching, healthcare, and tech
Artsy-fartsy majors teach, but the also get into healthcare and law
Less artsy liberal arts majors pretty much do all kinds of work available
Science and Math majors mostly go into medicine and college teaching.
That tired old cliche that one needs a degree in business or scince to get a job beyond McDonald’s should die.
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These are useful to battle the lack of dimension in so many students ideas of what they can do with an education. The single track vision is damaging. Indeed we see so many LIS stduents who see their opportunity solely in libraries!
Stephen

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