Tfw history major

>tfw history major
How does it feel to know our major is considered "free" and to be excluded by other professionals? Everyone around me seems like they're just smart enough to get into college but not smart enough to go for STEM. Everyone considers themselves a huge history buff but only care about wars (mostly WWII).

Just get a History PhD and become a certified shitposter.

History is not a professional degree m8. Also you're probably not as smart as you think you are.

This is what all the really smart people who go into history do. They write books full of shitposting.

There's no way I can afford grad school. There's a hundred other white guys like me in my major who love to spout history "facts" and trivia.
If I ever hear someone start a sentence with "Hitler's biggest mistake was _____" I'm going to snap

Don't understand your problem. Speaking of problems, notice any new geography threads lately?

What do you major in?

US History
I'm not saying I'm super smart but I feel like I could have gone for chemistry or engineering

I think you can get a job at a museum in a big city with a History degree. It might mean selling people tickets though.

Wars are interesting.

Why in the world would you major in history? And yes, because of the lack of rigor, most not many smart people would choose a history degree.

Grad school is free, that's why all the patrician history majors do it.

I thought it was cool and rewarding in high school. Wanted to do what I loved.
Not in the US m8
I live in Oklahoma, nothing but injun shit around here. They would not hire a paleface like me to even work a casino floor buffer.

it absolutely baffles me why anyone in the right mind would get a degree in something like history before getting an actually useful degree that could secure them a comfortable lifestyle

As a meme grad degree, sure, it's your money and spare time, but really? Undergrad?

>b-but I want to learn

The internet has literally made the sake of learning from college irrelevant. They're just petty degree mills now, nothing more than a competence filter for the best workers. Clearly with choosing a history degree, you've already failed at that too.

Go get a certificate. Don't waste all that money on a Masters.

Yang Wenli was a history major.

>Not in the US m8
Maybe if you get a masters and you're too retarded to get your fees paid for

I doubt people are giving sponsorships and high priced grants to history majors.

You don't even know how grad school works do you?

Enlighten me

If you're smart the department will figure out a way to get your fees paid like giving you a TA position

Why is History as a degree so shit in the US? Over here in the UK, if you get one from a top 10 Uni you can do whatever you want

Whatever posts the bills

Because you study history but learn to write and research well which is applicable to any analyst job. Also, many jobs especially comfy federal jobs only require a regionally accredited degree.

History degrees filter into a bunch of stuff that's tangentially related, like archival work and librarian jobs (the latter of which sounds petty until you realize that libraries get as big as stuff like the Library of Congress); if you go big and work your ass off you can get a good museum job like curation or registrar work, as well as what said.
And then, of course, there's always teaching, which is obviously not for everyone.

As for me, I'm planning on doing my first two years of college in community college and picking up some kind of trade certification then, just to be sure that I have some kind of guaranteed work I can do in my pocket.

>Undergrad Degree in Classics and Latin
>Spent a few years in the Military dicking around with stuff
>In school getting my MA in history and JD
>Can walk in and get employed by just about any company in the US
>Will be able to get doctorate whenever I feel like it

There is nothing wrong with an arts degree if you know how to use it and play the system.

It's the same here, if you went to an Ivy League school you probably can get any sort of job or into grad school easily. Honestly, the fact you're in an Ivy means you're capable of working your ass off regardless of what your degree is and employers know that

Those guys get weeded out as you get into more advance classes. It also helps if you take the obscure classes. Those are also best because they're usually taught by professors who are as sick of those shits as you are.

Go take a class on Minorities in the Ottoman Empire, or Military History of the Indian Subcontinent or something.

>How does it feel to know our major is considered "free" and to be excluded by other professionals?

What did he mean by this?