<p>Please help me by giving me advice based on my situatoin. I'm an international studies major and Russian minor at Cal State Long Beach. My geographic area concentration is Russia and Central Asia. I'm currenly evaluating my career prospects and what I should be doing to guarantee myself a job paying roughly $45-55k in my career field when I finish and enter the job market. Here's a little about myself. I did an 8 month internship with my Congressmember while living in Northern California. I moved to Long Beach and secured an internship in the government affairs division at the Port of Long Beach which I've been at for 6 months and counting. My GPA upon graduation in 2 semesters should be between a 3.2 and 3.4. I'll be studying abroad in Kazakhstan or Russia next Fall to increase my Russian language skills. Also, I'm currently participating in the CSU-ACE consortium, a Cal State program funded by the Defense Intel Agency that recruits people to work in the intelligence community (CIA, NSA, etc). I've worked many other non-relevant jobs, have done a year and a half of ROTC but disenrolled due to me joining late in my undergrad career, and I'm contemplating grad school. What are my job prospects and how competitive will I be?</p>
<p>What do you want to do? The IC is extremely competitive to get into. Russian will help. If you are in a program that the IC actively recruits from, then obviously you should look into that.</p>
<p>Peace Corps? The Hill? International Development?</p>