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Location: on my horse | Just what the title says, is there anything I can do with a bachelors in english? It would be easy for me to pick up the rest of the required credits to finish an English degree but is it just a waste of my time and money? I'm well over half way through my college education and still just as lost as I was when I started. Agribusiness was (is) my goal but I've gotten some experience in the field and don't feel like it's a good fit for me, I'm paying for this all out of pocket and am scared!  |
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Location: Midwest | Teach english |
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| barrelracr131 - 2014-04-16 11:27 AM Teach english
Sorry, that answer is to obvious. Try again! |
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Location: South Georgia | I am an English teacher. |
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Location: South Georgia | Some attorneys also hire English degrees as paralegal/legal assistants. |
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| My secretary is an english major. Hired her because my english sucks. |
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Location: on my horse | Do you like teaching? do you teach high school or college level? I enjoy giving riding lessons but kind of think teaching day in and day out would make me want to slap someone hahaha |
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Location: Midwest | Whiteboy - 2014-04-16 11:33 AM My secretary is an english major. Hired her because my english sucks.
Do you speaka da engleesh???? |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I have a friend with a degree in English. After she quit her flight attendant job, she got her teaching certificate and is doing adult ed. Out of curiosity, what did you not like about Ag-business? |
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Location: Midwest | redmansmyman11 - 2014-04-16 11:34 AM Do you like teaching? do you teach high school or college level? I enjoy giving riding lessons but kind of think teaching day in and day out would make me want to slap someone hahaha
I don't teach, but I have a friend that teaches both English and Spanish.
She has days she wants to pull her hair out, and other days where she makes a connection with the kids and loves her job. She does teach at a Catholic high school though, so she really doesn't have to deal with that many disciplinary problems. |
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| barrelracr131 - 2014-04-16 11:35 AM Whiteboy - 2014-04-16 11:33 AM My secretary is an english major. Hired her because my english sucks. Do you speaka da engleesh????
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Btw, a lot of jobs require a college degree, but aren't picky about what kind of degree it is. My cousin has a biology degree, and got into logistics with a trucking company. He has progressed from there and now has a big $$$$ job with Disney Stores. |
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Location: Midwest | Whiteboy - 2014-04-16 11:39 AM barrelracr131 - 2014-04-16 11:35 AM Whiteboy - 2014-04-16 11:33 AM My secretary is an english major. Hired her because my english sucks. Do you speaka da engleesh????
That guy looks like Bieber |
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| barrelracr131 - 2014-04-16 11:40 AM Whiteboy - 2014-04-16 11:39 AM barrelracr131 - 2014-04-16 11:35 AM Whiteboy - 2014-04-16 11:33 AM My secretary is an english major. Hired her because my english sucks. Do you speaka da engleesh????
Which is a perfect example! |
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Location: Texas | I work in marketing and proposal writing and managers in my field sometimes hire English majors as technical writers for proposals. Not glamorous or super highly paid, but it's an option.
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Location: on my horse | Three 4 Luck - 2014-04-16 10:37 AM
I have a friend with a degree in English. After she quit her flight attendant job, she got her teaching certificate and is doing adult ed. Out of curiosity, what did you not like about Ag-business?
Does she like it? Honestly as far as agribusiness goes the higher up I get into the course work and the more experience I get in the field I realize I have no passion for it, no real interest in it and it bores me to death.
I'm sure there are good jobs out there in the field that would be a good fit for me but I'm just not seeing anything available. I'm thinking picking up a different degree like English that I've already got the majority of the credits I need for will open some more doors but am just not sure of anything at this point.
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Location: Texas | Three 4 Luck - 2014-04-16 11:39 AM Btw, a lot of jobs require a college degree, but aren't picky about what kind of degree it is. My cousin has a biology degree, and got into logistics with a trucking company. He has progressed from there and now has a big $$$$ job with Disney Stores.
This is very true! |
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Location: on my horse | vthayer - 2014-04-16 10:42 AM
I work in marketing and proposal writing and managers in my field sometimes hire English majors as technical writers for proposals. Not glamorous or super highly paid, but it's an option.
Very true, I've been doing some technical writing on the side as a little bit of a supplemental income. I like it but don't think I could support myself and furry family with it... Then again I don't know all that much about the field as a whole |
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Location: Texas | redmansmyman11 - 2014-04-16 11:45 AM vthayer - 2014-04-16 10:42 AM I work in marketing and proposal writing and managers in my field sometimes hire English majors as technical writers for proposals. Not glamorous or super highly paid, but it's an option.
Very true, I've been doing some technical writing on the side as a little bit of a supplemental income. I like it but don't think I could support myself and furry family with it... Then again I don't know all that much about the field as a whole
The niche market that I work in is pretty unknown to most people, but once you get in, you can find a job almost anywhere!
If you can get hired as a technical writer for a large commercial general contractor, you can make really good money (architecture and engineering firm would also be an option, but with not quite as high a salary expectation.)
PM me and I can give you a lot more info! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | redmansmyman11 - 2014-04-16 11:42 AM Three 4 Luck - 2014-04-16 10:37 AM I have a friend with a degree in English. After she quit her flight attendant job, she got her teaching certificate and is doing adult ed. Out of curiosity, what did you not like about Ag-business? Does she like it? Honestly as far as agribusiness goes the higher up I get into the course work and the more experience I get in the field I realize I have no passion for it, no real interest in it and it bores me to death. I'm sure there are good jobs out there in the field that would be a good fit for me but I'm just not seeing anything available. I'm thinking picking up a different degree like English that I've already got the majority of the credits I need for will open some more doors but am just not sure of anything at this point.
Agronomy may have been a better fit. I have an Ag business degree, and liked most of the course work, but I have a knack for financial stuff and had a farm to come back to. My husband's graduate degree is agronomy and it suits him--he's more of a concrete, scientific thinker than I am--and the jobs available for that are more technical stuff in the field or research rather than sales reps and management jobs.
And my friend loves adult ed. Her students are there because they want to be and she feels like she's making a difference. She thought this was a foot in the door to becoming an elementary teacher, but she stayed because she developed a passion for the work. |
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