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What do people do after they major in English?

edited September 2013 in General
I am not trying to make fun of English major, I am just curious!

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  • edited September 2013
    teacher? 
  • Teaching, editing, journalism, some jobs just want any degree, there are jobs out there for people with English degrees but you gotta put in the work to get them.
  • become a bum/hipster or become an insane actor/playwright
  • They.... read and write english
  • edited September 2013
    I guess better than working at Starbucks after getting a business degree.

    Business graduates work at Starbucks, English major hipsters drink the Starbucks. Works out perfectly.
  • @lakerfanatic lol isn't Avenue Q the people who made that Internet Is For Porn song? 
  • Professional book reader? I don't know, maybe a teacher at best. 
  • edited September 2013
    ASTRONAUT
  • With (usually) more training, publishers and librarians.

  • edited September 2013
    Perspective from outside the discipline:

    With few exceptions, your course of study will have almost nothing to do with your career afterwards. If you have an English degree, it will be assumed that you can write well. You will discover, over the course of your career, that most people write poorly. (Many managers know this about themselves, and will expect you to cover for them if they hire you for another position.) It never occurs to anyone that an English degree also means that you read well and quickly, which is odd because that's probably even more valuable.

    Off the top of my head: grant writing, banking, government (all levels), law enforcement, B2B sales, business admin, publishing, journalism, PR, media, social work, education, law. Actually, law's a big one because 99.9% of what lawyers do is read and write. I can't think of any English BAs that went into medicine, but some ended up doing tech/sci sales of one sort or another.

    Suggestions for English majors: practice your public speaking, learn Excel and Word very well, and learn a little code (programming is just grammar). Take a stats class and get familiar with every data resource you can find. These are key skills for efficient grant writing, and there's always (well-paying!) employment for grant writers.
  • Guess I should've majored in English... because tl;dr.
  • I cannot Engrish cause internets and smrtphones made me dumb hurrrrr....but seriously English is different from the what we used to learn in grade school and high school, if you want to know why certain words are the way they are, linguistics is probably the program that deals more with grammar, syntax, etc.  English deals with more poetry, novels, plays, etc.
  • Go to Fine Arts for that.

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