<p>Hi, so I really want to study literature and English in college because it's something I'm truly interested and passionate about. But I'm concerned about what my career option are for that other than becoming an English teacher (because I honestly don't think I can do that). I think it's important that there be job options after considering how expensive college is, so any ideas? And thanks!!! </p>
<p>I am going to be an English major. I just discovered that I wanted to be a high school teacher, but before that, I was looking at a variety of other career options.</p>
<p>For a while I was considering being a librarian or an archivist. There’s also law and almost anything in business. Also, editing/publishing and maybe some options in journalism The thing about an English major is that, if you don’t want to be a teacher, you will probably have to go to grad school. However, the good part of this is that it prepares you for almost any type of graduate study. If you give more details about what you’re interested in doing, I may be able to help more.</p>
<p>You can do anything you want with an English major (well, you couldn’t be an engineer or an accountant, but you know what I mean). I truly believe that college should not be vocational school If you are passionate about English literature, that’s what you should major in. On school breaks and summers, get internships in a variety of different fields. The internships are going to be very important to you. Here’s a list of possible industries you can work in. I have divided them into related fields and fields unrelated to English, but you can still get a job in the industry.</p>
<p>Related Fields:
Journalism
Advertising
Public Relations
Publishing
Website content management
Corporate Communications</p>
<p>Unrelated to English (but you can still get an entry level job):
Bond trader
Stock broker
Human Resources
Program management for nonprofit
Sales
Account management for a corporation
Marketing
Retail management</p>
<p>Actually at a recent college visit I went to, I spoke to an english professor and he said one of his english major students went on to be an engineer and the fact that his english major taught him to really focus on details helped him a lot but also he gave me a sheet with every job recent english majors have gotten and its like a hundred totally different jobs I can dig out the paper if you want me to send along a picture somehow it was really good for me and informative because I am studying english next year as well!!</p>
<p>That’s great! I am a huge advocate of English majors. People don’t understand the value of it because there is no infrastructure to it, no set path as would be with an engineering major, medical school, law school, speech pathology, physical therapy, computer science, etc. The major is not the career. If you are the type of person who needs an infrastructure, then majoring in a liberal arts discipline might not be for you (except maybe psychology if you want to go on to be a psychologist). Majoring in a liberal arts discipline, you have to be able to tolerate ambiguity and be comfortable with a perhaps overwhelming number of choices. But you have to forge your own path.</p>
<p>Thanks all for the helpful answers, it really gave me confidence in my intended major, I was seriously worried before hand especially with parents talking about finances and student loans. @LAMuniv I’m afraid I’m not really sure on specific details yet, all I know is that it’s something that I’ve always loved learning 
@reb1rr that would be really awesome if you could do that!!! </p>