<p>What potential career paths are there if I were to get a masters in russian and east european studies?</p>
<p>starbucks.</p>
<p>Government, think tanks, NGOs. Make a job network for yourself though or you may find yourself indeed working at Starbucks for awhile.</p>
<p>HS language teacher if you are up to speed with reading, writing, speaking, and listening. HS social science teacher if not. In addtion to other suggested options.</p>
<p>Teaching, government related (given that Russian and other Slavic languages are considered “critical”), NGOs, non-profits, medicine, law… wherever there is a large Russian speaking population (such as San Francisco and New York City). It’ll take a little while but you’ll land something where you’ll be hired for your language skills.</p>
<p>Seems to me medicine and law will require more than just an MA, and in fact having an MA won’t be a significant boost to admissions chances to either med or law school. I also suspect that the highly competitive NGO and non-profit jobs will certainly be gobbled up by PhDs not interested in academia. Realistically, that leaves teaching (at HS or maybe CC?) and more schooling (PhD, JD, whatever).</p>
<p>The OP may be surprised that if s/he goes onto med or law school, s/he will find it more feasible to get an internship or patients/clients only because of his/her language skills. I’ve know it to happen to several med students who got patients in their 3rd or 4th year.</p>
<p>NeuroGrad, that’s not at all correct that PhDs will be the ones taking all of the jobs. Many NGOs want experience, not someone who is in their late 20s and hasn’t had a real job yet. I’m not on the development side of things so don’t know how initially breaking in goes, but the Peace Corps is an option that many pursue.</p>