so now it looks like you're going to be spending your life doing something you don't like. As an added bonus, you'll have all that college debt + a paper weight!
woe is meI have a Masters degree in underwater basket weaving but I only want to weave baskets underwater it is what I love, but can't find a job.
Whoa is me!
Maybe OP could learn how to use robots then? When I was a chemist, I learned how to program a GC to automatically take samples from a tray of vials, inject them in a certain order, analyze them the way I want, then write a pdf report of it. Robots are doing it, but I'm telling the robot what to doIn the long run robots will be doing all blue collar work. Saying robots is a gross oversimplification
I am supposed to be graduating in May of next year, but have no idea what to do next. I will be getting my BA in History, and can't really do anything with it. I was thinking about going to Grad school, but I won't be eligible for any student loans. I haven't worked any internships because there are about 500 applications for every position I have applied for. I was planning on working for a government agency (CO hires a lot of federal/state employees), but there haven't been any entry level positions open since last yearish. I don't have any loans to pay off (I paid off my ones I used my first 2 years of college). I just have no idea what to do. I would appreciate any advice. Should I attempt to apply for graduate programs? I assume i'd have to take the GRE, as well as other things. But I am nearly certain I won't be able to qualify for loans (my little brother just got denied a loan with my parents co-signing). How good is monster.com for finding a job? Another option, is that I stay till next December and take some blow off classes I've wanted to take and couldn't and hopefully the job market gets better by then.
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graduating college, dont know what to do.
edit: my minor is anthropology, and I only need 21 additional credits (semester + 1/2) to double major
I'm not trying to be condescending...but why, oh why did you get a degree in history? I don't understand why people are spending 40k+ at school for a degree that limits their career possibilities and gives them almost no marketable skills. If you had fun with your degree, that's fine, but when you matriculated, did you ever look to the future and think "what am I going to do with this degree after I graduate?". You're obviously not a student athlete with the ability to go pro so that's an excuse out the door.
Of my good friends from college:
-1 graduated with a BA-History degree. He got a degree only so he could go into the USMC and he's now a 2nd Lt as a Communications Officer. He got a shload of marketable skills from Comm School.
-1 graduated with a Poli Sci degree so he could join the Navy. Currently in Advanced Jet Flight School
-1 graduated with a Poli Sci degree and isn't doing jack besides trying to get into Law School
-1 graduated with a Poli Sci degree and is trying to become a cop. Been looking for almost 12 months now. Nothing
-1 graduated with a Poli Sci degree and is working at Sam's Club
-1 graduated with me (5 years) with a Mechanical Engineering Degree. He's a 2nd Lt in the Army with the Corps of Engineers
-I graduated in 5 years with a Building Construction Degree. Now work for a Construction Management company.
Trend: Guys with BAs in the military are fine. Guys with BAs not in the military are screwed.
HS grads are expected to go to college regardless of how they do in HS. I can see this being a big problem in about a decade.
woe is me
This is why you can't get a job as an underwater basket weaver. Your spelling is horrible.
what is an sgc team? I should also have mentioned my minor is anthropology, and only requires a few semester hours to double major in it. honestly had not even thought about joining the military.
So true. It's a shame society has put such a stigma on vocational training, it's such a great route for many people.
Just start applying for jobs OP. I have degrees in History and Anthropology and I work for a county government doing IT work :awe:
Is there some way of qualifying as independent from your parents in the meantime? If they aren't affiliated with your finances, then you might stand a chance of getting some financial aid, though I've got no idea how that sort of thing works out.I think thats the only advice anyone has actually given me in this thread. Thanks for all the flames, and yes, History was the only thing that appealed to me when I started college 4 years ago. I like learning about it, and I like writing about it, and I don't regret my decision. I just don't know what to do next.
I think thats the only advice anyone has actually given me in this thread. Thanks for all the flames, and yes, History was the only thing that appealed to me when I started college 4 years ago. I like learning about it, and I like writing about it, and I don't regret my decision. I just don't know what to do next.
Lol, I kinda walked my self into that one didn't I?
Seriously though, what options do I have in the military? Anyone with experience in the military care to chime in.