Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

What can you do with an English major?




Good question, liberal arts fans.
You can teach. If you have patience. Plenty of patience. Tried it. Not a calling.

You can work in publishing. Tried it. Worked for two regional magazines. Loved both, but moved on.

You can hit the political trail. Very few people, it seems, can read and write. Tried it. Loved it. My candidate lost and I was left jobless.

You can become an adult student. Tried it. Loved it, but never finished the Ph.D. (of course, in English). And I so wanted to be hooded. For some reason, people kept thinking I was a lawyer.

You can work for universities or a nonprofit. Tried it. At this point, I think it's pretty much stuck.

And if none of that works, you can become a pretty good sign-holder. For engineering, where there are altogether different opportunities.