<p>And by good I mean find a job, be okay with money.</p>
<p>BA Major: English Education
Minor: English in Composition and Media
I will graduate with honors distinction, if that means anything.</p>
<p>I want to teach for a while but eventually move on to write for education companies- i.e. review books, guides, textbooks, etc. I like to tutor, so that's why i chose teaching. And English becuase it's my obsession. I like analyzing pieces and writing (essays, how-to guides, stories).</p>
<p>Is this idea achievable wtih this major? and is it succesfull? or am I just being stupid with the idea?</p>
<p>You want to be an English major and your post has spelling and grammar errors? Tsk Tsk Tsk. Haha, just kidding. </p>
<p>First, I just want to that you can always follow your passion - you just have to find a way to market that passion. </p>
<p>In all honesty, the job market is * over-saturated* with English majors and education majors - the combination is not that much better. You’ll be in tough competition with others for positions that will typically go for <40k salary. What education level are you interested in teaching? The higher the education level (elementary, high school, college, etc.) the better the salary. what are in demand are science, math and foreign language teachers. If you are to go into teaching and writing, you can consider going into foreign language. You will be doing more composing than analyzing, granted, but you will have an edge in the job market and can later branch into translation and tutoring. It can be paired with a English minor, but employers don’t really look too much into one’s minor. It may be something you enjoy in a different way than you had anticipated.</p>
<p>Teachers aren’t scalable, unless you think watching a video is a substitute. But by and large we can expect the employment of teachers to follow the number of students that need teachers, which means there is likely to be decent demand in almost any city. For your second choice, writing for education companies, this is a job that is a perfect example of non-scalable. Whether reviews are read by a thousand or a million, you need the same number of reviewers. Which, nationally, is probably not a heck of a lot. What this means is that getting a job in the field is probably more dependent on luck, who you know, where you went to school, etc. If this is your dream and you make it, you may be very happy indeed. But getting there is not so simple, and simply having a minor in the field you contemplate is probably unrelated to your chances. I’d wager that if you surveyed a dozen or so people in your dream job, exactly none would have any formal training in something like “Composition and Media”. Which is to say do it if you want, but don’t expect it to deliver the job you want.</p>
<p>I think English is a fine thing to major in, teaching English is an honorable profession and good English teachers are always in demand. I also think it would be reasonable to teach for a few years and move on to a different, but related career in education. However, I would say that for career #2, what you did in career #1 is going to be a lot more important than what your major and minor are. </p>
<p>That said, there’s nothing wrong with the combination.</p>