Hello
I’m a current freshman at a small, highly-ranked liberal arts school double majoring in Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature. Lately I’ve been worrying quite a lot about becoming gainfully employed after college, considering the amount of money my family is putting into my education and how much I want/need a very intellectually stimulating job that makes use of the skills I’m learning now.
My dream is to go into print journalism, maybe in science/tech reporting. I’m a strong writer; I’ve won a lot of scholastic/collegiate journalism awards, I’m on the editorial staff of my college paper and I have been building a strong portfolio. I’ve had one relevant paid internship in this field as well. What can I do to make myself more employable in this competitive field?
I figured having computational skills would help, so I took an Intro CS class and LOVED it, so I’m considering taking more advanced CS classes as part of the Cog Sci major or even minoring in Comp Sci. The other computational courses I have taken/will be taking are: Statistics, Data Structures, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Advanced Linguistics.
Is this enough? Am I building enough skills to be employable?
I also don’t particularly want to work in a tech company as a software engineer or whatever; I just want to be employable in a field I do like. I want to have concrete skills and a job that allows me to apply them. (Being a QA Linguist, Journalist, Editor, etc). It’s really important to me that my job is challenging and interesting and I hate hearing all the stereotypes about unemployed liberal arts majors What would be some good jobs to look at?