I’ll keep this short, really, really short…I’ll try anyways.
I love learning in general, but I love history most. This creates an issue. To myself, and I’m sure to most history buffs, history is more than the study of “old things” people take it to be. It teaches a great combination of critical thinking, analysis, argumentation, and research skills. I could imagine this helps in all kinds of jobs.
However, the U.S. education model is focused on majors that teach job-specific skills rather than general ones. It’d be really hard to find a job directly related to history outside of the increasingly saturated education market. With this in mind, for history students, is it worth the major?
I want to major in history knowing that I would have to double major to hit the job market without serious connections. Though interested in education, the continuing pattern of teacher benefits getting scalped is frightening me away from that market.
What degrees naturally fall with history besides political science and broad economics? Will having a history major beside an unrelated major (say, a hard science?) benefit the holder in any way? If not, where can a history major go by itself, outside of grad. school?
I know there’s several questions here, but a few don’t deserve a full thread.
Thanks for the help, CC.