Hey Veeky Forums, how many of you are/graduated with history majors?
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>College/Uni
>Field of Study/Concentration
>interests/thesis topic
Me personally:
>UC Santa Cruz
>America and Africas
>Modern Latin America and Mexican history
got to learn about dem helicopter rides, Yankee Imperialism, and perfect dictatorships
>be history teaching major
>math minor cuz marketability and I already completed half of the classes when I decided what I wanted to do
>graduate with pretty good grades from one of the top teacher education colleges in the country
>have amazing student teaching year teaching US history to mostly honors students in my home state
>can't get History job in home state so I move to AZ for a year
>end up teaching retarded dirt poor spics who are 4 years behind where they should be
>be seriously depressed so I move back home
>try to find new History teaching job in home state, sub in the mean time
>just get Math or math/history interviews
>tfw I'm probably going to end up teaching math
Why didn't I just choose a normie major like supply chain management?
Having history as a major is near useless. I love history as much as the next Veeky Forumstorian, but it is almost useless in real life. I went to law school and I study history as a hobby.
I've graduated an arts degree, majoring in 'greece, rome and late antiquity', and am starting my masters when uni comes back
I'll be doing teaching afterwards so it's not all completely fucking useless. I study at the only relevant university for ancient history in the southern hemisphere
meh, Idk man, from what I read, sounds like I can apply to a variety of jobs.
It all don't matter though cause I want a Ph.D.
Masters from Norwich University
Focused on "The Long 19th Century", mostly the latter half but I'm okay with Napoleonic/Coalition stuff.
Wrote a thesis on the evolution of light infantry tactics and how those lessons have been inherited through history all the way to modern units like 10th Mountain.
History degrees aren't useless but they offer you a very narrow field to work with - I'm in Naval intelligence and my education background has helped me advance in rank as well as given me a helpful understanding of military theory and culture. Intel in general is a decent field for history because the skills you learn researching are very, very applicable to data collection/analysis/planning.
My GPA was total shit during high school, so I'm attending FSW's Collier campus. It's a cheap community college with very low standards, so I'm going to raise my GPA by doing really well on the easy core classes. Then I'll transfer to a good uni and work on getting a PhD in history. My goal is to be a professor.
>College/Uni
Moscow State University
>Field of Study/Concentration
Russian History
>interests/thesis topic
Russian in WW1 and 1917 revolutions
>drunk losers
kek
>Manchester
>Ancient History
>Fall of the Western Roman Empire
>Having history as a major is near useless. I love history as much as the next Veeky Forumstorian, but it is almost useless in real life. I went to law school and I study history as a hobby.
>not doing history and then going into law like any sane individual
I seriously thought about becoming a Russianist for a while but fell for the STEM meme instead. Now I study astrophysics
Doing my dissertation atm, on the Weimar Republic and paramilitary activity in Central Europe during the 1920s.
>University of Edinburgh
>History
>I enjoy the history of international relations, the Roman Republic, east asian history and whatnot. Also becoming interested in philosophy
Queens College
Double Majored in History/Irish Sutdies
Also did some dabbling in Intellectual History of the Far Right.
>UCF
>History w/ Latin American Studies Minor
>Cold War South America and the rise of extremist militant groups in the region
>Also have a thing for Latin America's culinary history
NYU 20th century political history
>Virginia Tech
>Double Majoring in Mech engineering and history
>Pre empire Rome and Early Byzantine
Although my interests tend to move through different Roman periods. Thinking about doing a research thesis on the Circus factions, and a couple other topics. We'll see how it pans out.
I tried to go to Naval OCS for Intel here in the States but after two years of waiting for the recruiters to get their shit together they told me I couldn't get in because of a damn skin condition. I was, needless to say, crushed. Wish they had figured that out earlier...initially they even said eczema wouldn't be a problem. Still interested in Intel and analysis though. Are there any jobs or careers out there similar for civilians? Any advice or ideas would be great.
On the plus side waiting two years gave me time to get in shape so maybe I could try for some law enforcement stuff now, but I'm kinda iffy on being a cop...always been more bookish hence the interest in Intel.
>transfer
semi-meme decision. While it is true that uni's do like students who have already taken college classes, It's much harder than if you had just been accepted as a freshmen and If you're applying to an actual good school like UF or UNC then you better have like a 3.8 college GPA and be prepared to retake a decent amount of courses.
>Latin America
I would recommend taking class with Plaveniek while he's still here. I had Renaissance and Reformation with him last semester and I really liked it so i took another one with him for this semester. I think he only teaches European History and Western Civ though.
>USU
>Middle East & Islam (main focus) / East Asia
>PoliSci minor (kinda on accident; told I needed a minor, and realized I'd been bulking up on PoliSci classes because they were easy for me)
>Capstone professor was researcher on Tudor England
>Picked as my capstone thesis an analysis on the political maneuverings of the first ten months of captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots in Tudor England
>got to access the British Royal Archives for my research
>surprisingly fun topic to research
I know people say History is kinda meh to study compared to other, "more practical" degrees, but I loved every second of it. Wish I had the funds to go on and get at least a Masters.
>College/Uni
Queen's University Belfast
>Field of Study/Concentration
Late Rome
>interests/thesis topic
Military effectiveness of the Late Roman Army, countering the "myth of barbarisation"
I'm working as an international records keeper for a pharmaceutical company. My research background in history helped but I'm also fluent in German which I think is the main reason I got the job.
All memes aside, don't let anyone tell you that a history degree is useless. A research background and a knack for critical thinking are things a lot of employers look for.
Anyone on International Affairs? I'm getting on that career this year, any thoughts?
Is law a saturated job market? I do Politics and International relations and tbqh a lot of people on my course including me are considering doing a law conversion. Is their really much point though if so many people are converting? Should I just stay in my own field?
>Inb4 /pol/ack scum
I love history and would have done it if i didn't have as much interest in the present and how the past relates to it.
Law is extremely hierarchal. A lot of law students are finding a hard time getting work, and a shitload of your first decade or so post-lawschool will be doing literal janitorial work that your seniors don't want to do. Have fun being a public defender and then an inglorious time in case preparation.
I hate my office job.
I have become monstrously depressed over the past several years and my social life has fallen apart because of it.
History and Humanities is one of the few things to give me any sort of pleasure. Should I just quit my job and go back to school and seek out a history degree? I don't want to be miserable anymore. I have a bachelors in business management and want to die.
A history degree will probably land you right back in some sort of office to be honest. If you're really, really, really lucky you can get a job in a museum in some capacity or as a research assistant but there are a lot of baristas with history masters who would snap those up in an instant.
Save up for a little bit and maybe try doing an apprenticeship or take up an artisan craft like art or woodwork, if you get good enough at it you can make it your job.
Learning another language is always helpful as well. If you live in Europe and you're fluent in French or German or Spanish you can walk into a call center job and make literally twice what all the other drones in there make.
I considered art but that seems like it would take a decade or more of learning to just become proficient. Not really feasible. And I lie awake at night fearing the possibility I might have to draw fetish porn in order to make ends meet.
What about archeology? Still very much a career in history.
UMN
Economics, Statistics
Chaffing here lads.
Studied History at university here in Denmark, and it was a fucking stupid choice. Unless you wanna teach or research, you can exactly nothing special with the degree. I always told myself I wanted to teach, but when I had the opportunity to try it, I didn't care for it at all. Don't get me wrong, I fucking love History, but I regret spending time majoring in it. I did a three year BA in History, but my Masters will be in something more useful. Working for now.
I study med and do his as hobby too.
>UoMichigan
>Civil Engineering
>Construction Management
Might join the Navy Civil Engineering Corps as an officer
Like history because of history-related vidya and think CEC could give me a chance to be a part of some important construction around the world
Majoring in history is a fucking trap. I see so many people major in History, only to get their degree and being able to do shit all with it. It's a very popular major where I live, but regret and bitterness is common among graduates.
In my neck of the woods a lot of fucking idiots do history because they can't do maths or science or anything, they get 3rd grade degrees that they couldn't do anything with no matter what the subject was, then blame it on history
History degrees being useless is a meme, you can do basically any graduate job with it and you can basically walk into a bookkeeping or archivist job
Depending on what your speciality was you can also get involved with certain organisations and get employed that way. I wrote my thesis on the development of urbanism in Dublin so now I get contracted to do all these events and writeups for the council and such
I actually took Plavniek's class on WWII and the Rebirth of Europe.