So you're a history major, but what do you do for a living?

Well, I graduated in history, but am currently unemployed due to elite overproduction.
Historian Peter Turchin explains it in his book "Secular Cycles".

>you go to a uni to study a specific subject you find interesting
>You pay money for this
University is not a craft school, it's just for knowledge. Do with it whatever you want.
Just because you only go to school as preparation for a job, that doesn't mean I do.

I can read books for cheaper at home. The only thing you might have over me are rare primary sources I can't read because I don't speak the language.

T. Accounting BA degree

Going to school to become a history teacher.

Tis my calling.

Also at least in NC history teaching and history are two separate majors. You take both to be a teacher. Dunno how this usually works.

I wouldn't take history as a degree if there were no viable jobs.

Trade steel. Going to law school next year though.

Pilot. There's really no requirements for what degree you have, as long as you have a BS or BA and flying experience.

>it's just for knowledge.
Desu, it is bad knowledge. I self-study, which is flawed in its own way, and often I am taught stuff that is discredited or no longer used.
I even asked r/askscience about it to be sure, and they confirmed it.

Same here

construction

it's cool cause i get to put my headphones in and listen to Great Courses all fucking day

im poor and not very good at math or science so i'm just getting my associates to just sort of have it.

i was thinking of becoming a welder, i had a couple classes in high school and liked it.

also i ive often though of how cool it would be to be a cop.

truth is i'm only majoring in history because it's all i was ever good at. in reality I might end up working a blue collar job just like my dad.

I married a rich girl.

Are you me?

Foreign service exam.

Autist tier history knowledge is needed actually.

Teacher. Going for FSL, Senior Maths and Principal 1 & 2 AQ's. Slowly moving up.

they just don't understand the struggle of working class history buffs

>I can read books
Because this is all history majors learn how to do, right?

How are you going grade wise in uni? I originally didn't know what I wanted to do and spent 6 months lounging about before choosing a history/ teaching double degree. It's very easy, haven't applied myself and all my marks have been distinctions.

Fuck. You guys are me.

i'm doing fine, it's just my math classes the fucking kill me. i failed one and i think i might fail the one i'm in now, but in English classes i do ok and i get straight A's in history.

i love learning and telling other people about history but i don't want to be a teacher, i don't really know what i want to be.

my family has been nothing but farmers for generations and being the only son, the pressure to make something of myself is ridiculous.

i can't see myself behind a desk, but i don't want to work myself to death like my dad, and his dad, and his dad...........

we'll get our shit done, and what comes, comes.

>be STEM
>Come on Veeky Forums to read the pseudo historic ramblings of people who will never have jobs

i teach youth groups coordinated, inspirational dance routines

I've had a job..... in a distribution warehouse.

I don't want to be a teacher either, I just love history. I don't think I wanna work at all, spending 9-5 working just to make money for other people. I just want an adventure like the ones in the movies, one where I discover an ancient city or ancient treasure.

>I just want an adventure like the ones in the movies, one where I discover an ancient city or ancient treasure.
But we all know that's never going to happen user. The best we can hope for is working at a starbucks and becoming assistant manager.

I always wanted to be a planetary scientist, but my parents talked me out of it since I'm no good at math.

What's your major? What job do you have?

Maybe in Murica, here in Europe it's piss easy to get a job with it

>I just want an adventure like the ones in the movies, one where I discover an ancient city or ancient treasure.
well we've all got dreams, like mine of wanting to bang ASSR

don't get yourself hurt

well he could be a historic artifacts smuggler, those fuckers make fuck-heaps of money

>historic artifacts smuggler
That's actually not a bad idea. Hell, with the state syria's in right now, you could probably smuggle a whole mesopotamian temple before before anyone even noticed.

>get to put headphones in
I'm guessing you're a just a GL because that's a fucking safety hazard out the ass.

Historic artefacts smuggler eh? That could work. Do you guys believe we've discovered everything there is to discover on this earth.

Kek

there's also lots of Mexican ruins that fucking everybody ignores.

i lived close by an archaeological site that had tons of shit just lying at the bottom of a lake.

>Do you guys believe we've discovered everything there is to discover on this ear
no, we haven't not by a long shot.

like whats in those underwater caves in mexico?

or that island in Canada that has viking treasure buried in it but is protected by traps so nobody can get it.

there is shit out there, it's just hard to get to.

>Do you guys believe we've discovered everything there is to discover on this earth.

No, we've yet to discover the origins of the sea peoples

>i lived close by an archaeological site that had tons of shit just lying at the bottom of a lake.
user, you wanna hang out? I'll bring my scuba equipment and we can bob for treasure.

They were the Atlantean navy you dumb ass.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missing_treasure

So lads, who wants to join me? Your name will be never forgotten and you might receive a finders fee worth a lot of money.

i'd love to but seeing as i'm not in any financial state to be traveling to another nation

one thing about artifact smuggling you should know, you're gonna have to make deals with shady as fuck people. ISIS, cartels, mafias, gangs, and deep web black market shit.

in reality you'd probably be safer selling crank in Chicago

We need to find twelve manlets to accompany us first.

What if many of the artifacts destroyed by ISIS were fakes, and the real ones were taken by artifact hunters who paid ISIS to destroy the fakes so nobody would come after them?

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that the first one, the Imperial Chinese Seal, is in the tomb of Genghis Khan.

>What if many of the artifacts destroyed by ISIS were fakes, and the real ones were taken by artifact hunters who paid ISIS to destroy the fakes so nobody would come after them?
ya see! that's some shady shit.
become a legit archaeologist and steal some shit you find before anyone else sees and then sell it.

...

And where is the tomb of Genghis Khan?

>sell it
It belongs in a museum.

>belongs

STEMFAGG GET OFF MY BAORD REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>be [religious studies] student
>come to Veeky Forums to see autistic retards misinterpreting religious doctrine and practice and blatantly revising history
>when I roll up with Geertz and Lincoln my arguments either get meme'd down or ignored

Actually, many of the artifacts destroyed by ISIS were fakes, the real ones having been evacuated weeks in advance.

Librarian m8

Got a source on that?

>be humanities
>think that engineering is objectively a better career path
>majoring in humanities anyway because I happened to be born with money and I'm willing to take a gamble

rt.com/news/240801-isis-destroy-statues-fake/

timeslive.co.za/scitech/2015/03/16/isis-destroyed-fake-artifacts-in-video-the-originals-are-all-here-baghdad-museum

Man that made my day

>majoring in history
>no idea what I want to do with my life
>high GPA
>teaching is heavily over saturated in my province
>can't even find a retail job
>considering learning korean out of interest even though it's useless
Should I just apply to co op positions through my university or should I just suck it up and practice for the LSAT?

Autism therapist

You can do just fine with a Master's. Most management programs really only want any four year degree though. With the Master's you can work for research groups or think tanks. There's a shocking number of them, though they're mostly conservative establishments. I'm sure that's not an issue for many of you.

Learning Mandarin so I have some usefulness. Seriously considering joining the Air Force after college. I've wanted to work in the defense industry and most of the people in that field I have talked with say that you either have to be a super smart STEM major or have served in the military for a few years.

>Learning Mandarin
Why? It takes like 10,000-20,000 learned characters to be able to read a newspaper.

Not him, but it's fun as fuck. I'm learning Mandarin concurrently with Japanese.

37 years as a Maintenance Mechanic. Wife's an MD, with 25 F&SF Novels and 50 short stories sold, so I us it to help in her plot research.

I work at a non-profit institution that used the 19th century portrait of their founder as a shelf to store very heavy items on. Also ladybugs.

I don't know, tell me what you do besides reason history books and regurgitate your professors opinions. The receptionist at my company is going finishing her history degree, and that's what it sounds like she does.

Once you understand a couple dozen common characters you can get the gist of most things. I've done a lot of communicating with native Chinese speakers as well and since most of them speak English if all else fails you can communicate with them in a mix of Chinese/English.

If I minor in German and speak fluently could I get a job over there?

how old are you gramps

...

you need an advanced degree and an assload of experience to realistically have a shot at becoming a FSO, it's not something you can do straight out of college

there's a reason the age limit is 55

do you have a job though?

what about the Amber Room?

I'm not doing it because I think it'll land me a job, I'm doing it because I want to. However even if my degree doesn't get me through the door to a job without one that door wont even be open.

I'm currently working as an EMT to pay my way through school and after I graduate I'll probably continue to do that while looking for a civil service position, maybe move over to law enforcement in some capacity.

Right now I'm a bagger at a grocers, but this January I'll be a student teacher for high school social studies.

What ? No way, there's no way

It's a common path for
poli sci normalfags
historyfags
philosophyfags (logic and critical thinking are needed most for the LSAT)
sociologyfags who are really into family and marriage structure

pretty much any humanities really

You can't do this. Having the girl making the money is like having the girl stuffing your vagina with her penis

>tfw a girl will never peg you

But there are a lot of stuffs in law that you MUST understand. It's like a management student attempting to become an accountant

Someone will, trust me

If you gonna get an associates just to have it, you might as well get a criminal justice degree and become a cop.

>But there are a lot of stuffs in law that you MUST understand
Yeah, that's why they're going to law school.

Yeah no i mean without law school there's no way you can be a lawyer

I should have said that a common path for those majors is law school.

Probably starbucks LMAO

get a job in government

The LSAT is basically a psychology test. "If you have 8 seats at a round table, and Bobby can't sit next to Suzy, etc. etc. etc."

Yeah. After you get into law school. Look, I scored in the top 5% of the LSAT. If I had been smart enough to be a psych major, I would have scored in the top 1%, easily.

Deep unemployment

in what

Lol believe me most native Chinese speakers do not speak English beyond 'hello'

xiexie

Yeah as a teacher and thats it.

I graduate next year from high school, planning to get economics & political science at uni, since I kind of understand that I'm shooting myself in the foot with a history course. How fucked am I?