<p>Dear liberal arts majors: what jobs do you want to get after graduating if you are not go to medical school, law school or grad school? What is the pay?</p>
<p>literally I have NO idea. I’m just hoping to find something creative, out-of-the-box, non-mundane, but can still get by w/o being poor :P. YA know? None of this cubicle, corporate stuff for me.
What about you!?</p>
<p>UC Berkeley actually does a survey of their graduates.</p>
<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/major/major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/major/major.stm</a></p>
<p>Of course, expect bias as with all surveys. People with jobs are more likely to respond then people without jobs.</p>
<p>^Thanks for the site. I checked out the one for Communications and it lists a bunch of jobs but it’s hard to know exactly what is daily job activities like with just the job title:</p>
<p>Employers & Job Titles
American Indian Public High School Administrative Assistant
Facebook, Inc. Sales Planner
Google Inc Legal Assistant
I Love Bracelets Purchasing Agent
Marla Dell Talent Assistant
Mercury Media Media Assistant
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Project Manager
Pandora Media Inc. Graphic Designer
Rossi Cox Vucinovich & Flaskamp PC Legal Assistant
Taproot Foundation Recruitment Coordinator
Teach for America Corp Member/Teacher
The Greenlining Institute Media Associate</p>
<p>Are jobs like project manager, purchasing agent, talent assitant etc don’t require much brainstorming and is easy laidback job?</p>
<p>Liberal arts majors usually end up at Burger King.</p>
<p>Here’s some stuff that I’ve realized during my stay at college:</p>
<p>A liberal arts degree rarely ever applies to your job/career after college unless you pursue academia. What students need to realize is that they have to keep their academic and professional sphere separate. A lot of students go through college just only studying and hoping that they will land a job with whatever skill sets they acquire during school. That’s entirely untrue for liberal arts majors since many of the stuff learned is not directly applicable to the job. This is how liberal arts majors end up at burger king.</p>
<p>Now, the way around this is to realize that you will most likely not end up with a job directly related to Classics or Chinese studies after college and to focus on a professional life separately. As it works the other way around, most jobs out there are not related to academia at all. So, it’s entirely possible for a liberal arts major to acquire business jobs or anything else as long as they focus their attention to acquiring these jobs. Obtain internships early on or other forms of experience to brush up the resume - imo, business students in Haas only have an advantage in the job market because they focused on this early; any other major could have the advantage as well as long as they do this.</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post - I’m sort of hyped up on caffeine.</p>