<p>This thread is mostly for linguistic major job prospects, but I'm just throwing anthro in there too. For linguist, are most of the jobs pretty much just translation or language teaching? I love trying to understand other languages in terms of its culture (that is, why one word has this connotation in one place or why some languages have words that don't exist with any other group). Yet, I am not very good at learning languages, and even though I try I don't think I would enjoy a job as a translator. Are there other jobs for me?</p>
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<p>Of the linguists I’ve met, one works with computers (coding), another works in the publishing industry, one is currently a PhD student in archaeology, and the last is fast on a track to becoming a lexicographer.</p>
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<p>Just an idea, but what about speech-language pathology? It’d be a good background, I’d imagine, and you’d get to really help people in such an essential way. It’s not terribly related to studying culture, but you’d be able to apply having studied phonetics. You only need a masters degree, and they make a nice salary. A counsellor told me about 60-80k (in California, anyway) coming out of college.</p>
<p>Just a thought.</p>
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