Getting a job after college with a liberal arts degree?

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>So I'm currently a senior music major (ashamed to say, haha) looking to finish school in the Summer. I spent my first few years out of high-school in community college trying to figure out what I wanted to do and ultimately decided to pursue my passion and transfer to a University for music. I still love music, and will continually be involved in it, but I'm humble enough to realize now that the real world is tough, and I need to find some solid work after college. My degree is just a BA in General Music, so I've gained no real credentials unfortunately. At this point I'm just looking for the steps to take to land me a decent job after school and then work towards my dreams/goals as a musician. My question is in what ways can I utilize my degree in finding jobs, even if they aren't music related? Should I visit the career center here? Make a LinkedIn profile? In the past I've worked as a remedial math tutor and really enjoyed that. I also have a knack for working with numbers, and considered earning an associate's degree in accounting at one point. </p>

<p>I mean my dream job is to perform as a full-time singer/songwriter/musician, and secondly to teach guitar privately and/or at college, but I'm not expecting either to happen right away and I know I'd need extra schooling for the latter. My short term goal is just finding good honest work where I can utilize my skills and use that to support myself while I build a name for myself in the music world.</p>

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<p>Absolutely visit your career center. There are many positions that don’t require a specific degree. Work on your resume and interviewing skills and the career center can help you with this. As far as teaching guitar privately here in our area there are several local music studios who rent out space to music teachers. Maybe you could look into renting such a space and then work on getting students to come to you.</p>

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<p>Have you thought about teaching? Or leading a school/church chorus? Maybe you could also look into jobs with studios / music production companies? I don’t know if these jobs sound like you, but they would keep you within the field and in working with schools, your hours are generally M-F, 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM, so you would basically have evenings free to participate in outside musical performances and endeavors. Music teachers don’t usually assign homework, so no grading!</p>

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<p>Guaranteed EBT card.</p>

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<p>There are a lot of jobs that look favorably on people with bachelor’s degrees, without needing a specific bachelor’s degree. However, realize that there are a lot of people competing for those jobs. You probably want to get to the career center early and start applying to jobs as much as you can.</p>

<p>Knowledge from courses in statistics, the social studies subjects (economics, psychology, sociology, etc.), and computer science may be useful generally in the work world.</p>