<p>I have become friends with a young woman who has a BA in French and a minor in Chem. She is a couple of years post grad and has been working in a field she thought she wanted to be in but it has not been what she had hoped. She would like to find something that she could use her french language skills. She also is pretty sure she wants to go back to school for a masters. Her first order goal is to study for the GRE.
She has mentioned a Master degree in International Business or Global Relations. Any suggestions or advice I can pass along to her. She is low income and has not had the time or money to go abroad. </p>
<p>Club Med? </p>
<p>Just kidding. Well, sort of serious. If she is trying to figure out what to do next, maybe a few years traveling and having a completely different experience would be worthwhile. She could work in travel, like at Club Med—if that still exists—or Backroads, some sort of tour and travel company. </p>
<p>She could teach or translate. </p>
<p>Can she get to Canada? Haiti? Trying to think of French speaking countries that are closer. She could do aid related work in Haiti. Working in French in Canada, maybe she could work for a bank or otherwise take a corporate job before applying to an MBA school</p>
<p>I know several French majors (don’t know why). My friend went directly to law school and never used her French much. My sister got a job at as French company answering the phones. Most of the French callers who didn’t speak English were spouses (back in the days before cell phones). In between answering the phones, she learned the business, became a land man, and then switched companies and the new company paid for her to go to law school. My cousin works for a French law firm in Manhattan. I think she uses quite a bit of her French. Former SIL also started answering phones in French for a telecom company, learned the business and when on to a very high level position with Qwest communications.</p>
<p>The only one still doing a lot of French is my cousin at the law firm.</p>
<p>The only French major I know worked in an international gallery (where her French was helpful) for a while and then went to law school. In any event companies that do some business in French speaking countries may well have an interest in her.</p>