<p>My strengths are in English and history and I feel that all the careers I'm interested in you can't find a job in. </p>
<p>I wanted to be a lawyer, but they can't find jobs according to the New York Times.
I also wanted to be an English teacher but there are also too many of them.
Any ideas?</p>
<p>There are plenty of jobs for law school graduates with good grades from the Top 14 schools. If you really know what a lawyer is and want to be one, just work very hard and go to one of those schools.</p>
<p><a href=“For Law School Graduates, Debts if Not Job Offers - The New York Times”>For Law School Graduates, Debts if Not Job Offers - The New York Times;
<p>I just can’t end up in the same situation as the people in this article. I feel like law school is a gamble, and I need a career that can offer a more stable platform than that.</p>
<p>“But the legal market has always been obsessed with academic credentials, and today, few students except those with strong grade-point averages at top national and regional schools can expect a come-hither from a deep-pocketed firm.” - page 2</p>
<p>“It’s an argument complicated by the reality that a small fraction of graduates are still winning the Big Law sweepstakes. Yes, they tend to hail from the finest law schools, and have the highest G.P.A.’s.” - final page</p>
<p>It is not a gamble if you make good grades at a top school (top, as in top 14…not top 50, not top 20, not top 15). The article focuses on ALL law graduates…and there is a big difference between top students at the top 14 and everyone else. But it does not sound like you are all enthusiastic about being a lawyer, so it might not be a good idea anyway, considering how intensive law school is.</p>
<p>However, if you really want to be a lawyer and are just worried about the risks…Go to a decent instate public school for your undergraduate degree to minimize your undergraduate debt. Get an employable degree that can get you a good job on its own (since your undergraduate major does not matter for law school admission). At this point you will probably have an idea (after going through undergraduate) if you could stand the intensity of law school in order to get good grades. If you still want to be a lawyer, apply to all of the top 14 schools and none others. If they don’t accept you, you can end your law ambitions right then since it is too risky.</p>
<p>P.S.
"Correction: January 16, 2011</p>
<p>An article last Sunday about law schools misstated the educational history of Jason Bohn, a recent law school graduate.While Mr. Bohn took classes at Columbia Law School, his law degree is from the University of Florida. And while nearly all of his student loan debt was accumulated at Columbia University, it was incurred while he was an undergraduate and while working on a master’s degree, and not at Columbia Law."</p>
<p>Essentially, this guy was an idiot. He got his law degree from a non-T14 law school, for some reason took other expensive law classes at Columbia Law, incurred a ton of debt in an undergraduate school, and wasted a large amount of money on a pointless master’s degree.</p>
<p>Finding a job is difficult these days no matter what, but if you do invest in more schooling, you will have more time to develop networking skills, plus you will increase your worth as a potential employee by quite a bit. If you are interested in law, one common practice for people regardless of their major in undergraduate is to find an administrative position at a law firm (paralegal, something like that). This gives you all sorts of advantages. </p>
<p>If you decide to go to law school after a year or two, your firm will already have a relationship with you, increasing the likelihood that you’ll get an internship with them and making your resume more attractive overall. If you decide NOT to go to law school, you will already have a job and the experience to move on to other companies and positions.</p>
<p>A good friend of mine actually got a job as an analyst at a bank’s legal department when he was considering law school, and now that he is applying, their legal team is going to act as a group of mentors throughout the process. He was a history major!</p>
<p>If law isn’t your thing, the hotter career paths for liberal arts folks seem to be in journalism, consulting, administration and teaching. You could also consider a master’s degree in something or, if you love academia, a PhD in something!</p>
<p>[UC</a> Berkeley career center survey of new bachelor’s degree graduates](<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm]UC”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm)</p>
<p>Looks like the liberal arts majors with better employment prospects include applied mathematics, economics, physics, and statistics. Computer science also does well, although not everyone considers it a “liberal arts” major.</p>
<p>If you can handle a moderate amount of math, you may want to consider double majoring in economics along with English or history, in order to make yourself more marketable if you do not end up going to graduate or professional school. Of course, applied mathematics and statistics are other possibilities for a second major if you like math and are good at it.</p>
<p>I have a BA degree in English and I’ve been very happy in my career in writing, public relations, and communications. Particularly at large organizations (universities, insurance companies, Fortune 500s), these positions pay very well if you’re willing to put in a few years’ work at a lower pay level to get experience on your resume.</p>
<p>there is definitely a demand for writers in the health care field (PR, advertising etc…) and anticipated demand going forward…I would imagine a science minor couldn’t hurt either…</p>