Classics.

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<p>dude, if it’s that bad, maybe I should have just majored in accounting or finance! I guess I have to just tone down my ambitions and become a high school teacher if it’s that bad at the university level (don’t tell me they’re cutting jobs at high school level too!). I remember a high school history teacher who went to grad school. The problem is, I’d have to get a teaching credential and that can take a while. But, I heard it’s a decent pay especially with a MA (my plan for now). </p>

<p>Well, I want to go to grad school now because I expect finding a job in these hard times is damn difficult. The problem with me is that I hate jobs that involve habitual practice. The nearest “practice” job I would willingly take is teaching. But the job market is completely dominated by “practice” skills not academic, professional, whatever it’s called these days. So I’m trying to find a middle ground. It seems English is the answer since it can be both academic (literature) and practical (rhetoric, MFA). But I know I have to choose between two branches of the field. God, this is one hell of a life.</p>

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<p>Elderpegasus, about the MFA route in creative writing: you need publications, and lots of them, before you can get a full-time job with an MFA.</p>

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<p>Hi, Elderpegasus. I agree with the above posters that you should probably decide what you want to do for a career before you decide on grad school. You seem really anxious about this, so my suggestion is two-fold: 1) don’t stress - you don’t have to figure out this moment what you want to do. There are still plenty of years to apply to grad school. 2) don’t take CC posters too much to heart - we don’t actually know you or your situation other than as you’ve presented it. If you think about it really carefully and decide that Classics is deepest desire of your heart, I imagine you could make it work (though you’d probably have to work extra hard on the application/take new courses to prove your language skills, etc.)</p>