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Is it going to be hard for me to find a job if i am a liberal arts major? |
Is it going to be hard for me to find a job if i am a liberal arts major? Yes.sure you can. it will be a low position, low payed job (do not expect more than $45,000 per year at most). You enjoyed your college days now you will pay for it by getting coffee and lunch for the office. Not necessarily. Liberal arts majors are helpful for a variety of careers: you can become a journalist, editor, lawyer, diplomat, teacher, policymaker, researcher, actor or pretty much anything you set your mind to. However, unlike in professional degrees like medicine or engineering, you don't have one set career path. You can begin a degree, or even get near to finishing it, without knowing exactly what you're going to do afterwards. Instead of giving you lots of skills in one area, a BA gives you less specialised skills which you can then choose to apply to a variety of areas. For some people, this is a bad thing: they need a lot of structure, and they need to know exactly where they're going before they start. If you are this kind of person, I'd recommend that you do a professional degree, or at least that you choose arts subjects with a clearer career path, like psychology, archaeology or law. But some people want to keep their options open for longer, and BA gives them the flexibility to do this. As well as choosing their own career path, BA students also choose how difficult their degree will be. If you want to, you can do very little work, sleep through or bunk lectures, not engage with the material, and still scrape through. It is this type of person who gives BA the reputation of being easy and a waste of time. It is also this type of person who will struggle to get a job afterwards. Since you are doing a BA in order to get skills, if you have learned nothing at the end of your degree, you will still have no skills to apply. However, it is also possible to make your BA very rigorous. While it is relatively easy to pass, you need to really engage with the material in order to do well. In this respect, you get as good as you give. Not only will you learn more skills and develop more as a person, but you will come out with marks that show that you apply yourself and are not afraid of hard work. Subject awards look VERY good on your CV. For a successful arts major: DO have some idea of what you want to do afterwards, even if it's not entirely clear, changes, or has more than one option. DON'T aim just to pass. You might as well be at home watching tv. DO find out from the subjects you're interested in, what their past graduates have gone on to do. DON'T specialise in something so obscure that nobody has heard of it, never mind wants to give you a job in it. It's okay to become an academic afterwards, but even academics need to teach more than one course. Also, competition might be stiff to get a job at a university, and if your area of study is too obscure, you have no backup plan. DO keep track of the world of work, and what kinds of jobs are available out there. DON'T study something that you hate, just because it has a definite career path. DO choose something interesting and challenging. DON'T major in something that you're failing or scraping through - why try to be something you're not? Don't aim for 51% in philosophy, when you could have got 78% in politics. DO enjoy it: you might never again have such a good opportunity to learn and develop as a person. I think it would be easier for you to find a job if you had a degree in a technical field. Job prospects for technical positions remain strong. Even if you decide not to ultimately pursue a technical career path, the technical degree still comes in handy. The same cannot be said of a liberal arts degree. In other words, an engineer can always become an office manager or go into sales. But an office manager or sales person cannot become an engineer without more schooling. Of course, lots of liberal arts majors don't have any trouble finding employment. It depends on the major. Technical and science jobs are easy to find a job and they pay well. If you major in communications, psychology, history, art, gender studies, then you will have a hard time finding a job, let alone a good paying job. I graduated from a liberal arts college and have alot of friends that have a hard time finding a good job. All my friends make less than $40,000. I ended up majoring in Computer Science and Math. Liberal arts majors tend to find better jobs if they have a masters degree. It's hard to find a job with just a bachelors in a liberal arts degree. |
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