<p>or for those who are currently majoring in history, what do you plan to do after graduating college? Are you planning to continue with graduate school in history, go to law school, etc? Just curious to see the paths of other history majors.</p>
<p>One of our family friends went to law school after an undergrad in history</p>
<p>one of my friends started working for the CIA as an intelligence analyst. They seemed to like that fact that he studied the history of the middle east for 4 years.</p>
<p>I graduated last year in history, now I'm in graduate school, officially for international relations but since my focii are Europe and international history I basically live in the history department. When I graduate with my MA I plan to either go back to doing think tank work (I did that for a year before graduate school, during undergrad) or work for an int'l org or NGO, something like that.</p>
<p>A good friend of mine was a history major at Washington and Lee. He then went to Harvard Business School for his MBA and is now a mutual-fund manager. Most years his pay is in *eight *figures. Yep you read right. To top it off, he only works part-time. Arrrgh!</p>
<p>the man makes $10,000,000+ a year? That's nonsense, are you sure you got that right?</p>
<p>It can happen, with Wall Street type jobs. </p>
<p>Wall Street split nearly $30 Billion in bonuses this past month. </p>
<p>Yes, Billion.</p>
<p>My high school history teacher worked for the CIA or FBI or something like that. But then he had a resolution and wanted to become a teacher. He had to work 10+ years in order to make ALMOST the same amount of money as his old job. Crazy, huh?</p>
<p>Any other opinions? I'm looking into history (well, American Studies, but its similar). Without a professional degree (law, business), what jobs can I get immediately out of undergrad? Also, how's being a history professor work out? I hear the pay isn't good at all.</p>
<p>It's great to know that history majors aren't restricted to going to law school or teaching. I really want to work for the CIA or FBI or maybe go on to grad school for a Ph.d, but I had a falling out with my first love: math. I've always loved history, and I plan on majoring in it with East Asian as a focus and a couple languages on the side.</p>
<p>I will most likely be going to NYU for history in the fall... I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with it. I'm considering political journalism, so I would probably have to spend about 349504 years in grad school, but we'll see how it goes. I'm very excited...</p>