How many of y'all are doing what you went to school for?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PersistentDST

The bolded is my life right now. My Senior Seminar English professor told us, "You guys better be looking at graduate schools, because you won't find too many jobs with your BA in English." You could imagine how deflated I was! My Pan-African Studies degree (also under liberal arts) has actually given me more opportunities than my English degree. My master degree program is in Cultural Foundations, which has already given me more future job options because it's under the field of Education.

There are two ways to look at a college degree. Some degrees give you specific skills to do one career. Other ones give you more general skills but without the skills to do one particular thing. Both have advantages and disadvantages. I did the first one and ended up having to take more classes to change careers because that was all I knew how to do. Additionally, "they" say that 80% of today's kindergartners will have a job that doesn't even exist yet. Think about that. In 20 years, 80% will have a job that doesn't even exist yet.

Focus on your skill set- think about how you could use it. Be creative with it.

I can totally say that my current career (Information Security) did not exist when I was in college. There was nothing to secure computers from- the Internet didn't exist. You don't know what the future will bring, but I can say that excellent writing skills can take you a long way in a lot of industries.