<p>For what it’s worth, you can certainly major in English (or any humanities discipline) and go into business or onto business school. It’s what me and many of my friends are doing. If you’d like to pursue a PhD in English, of course, like MOST academic jobs right now, tenure track jobs are very hard to come by as more universities rely on adjuncts and the like. Also, as a professor, much of your life would be research, depending on where you teach.</p>
<p>Some of my friends who were English majors and myself are doing the following (one year out of college)
- working in consulting
- going to business school
- going to law school
- getting an MFA
- getting a PhD in English
- working for a publishing house
- working in journalism at a small paper
- working for a think tank in DC
- working as a social media strategist
- getting a degree in Library Science
- going to med school
- working in PR
- doing freelance writing
- working in marketing</p>
<p>So definitely a range of things you can do with the major!</p>