What do you do with a humanities degree from an ivy, if you are not going to grad school?

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Anonymous wrote:Supervise stembots.

Nope, those are the jobs tech companies are slashing. "Managers" need to also be technical and will be expected to contribute, not just manage.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently declared there would no longer be "pure managers" at the company, while Block's Jack Dorsey and Snap's Evan Spiegel are pushing toward leaner, AI-powered teams where managers are expected to contribute directly

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/pure-managers-are-increasingly-at-risk-in-the-age-of-ai-8818234/

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Anonymous wrote:The people who graduated from an Ivy with a humanities degree were still in rarefied air. Now education and AI has opened fields to students with every background. It's tough to say that the medieval studies major from Yale will still be in demand in a few years.

+1 how old are these "execs with history undergrad degree only" people? Times have changed.

-55 year old

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Run my Daddy's funds

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Anonymous wrote:Humanities teaches you to think and question and review material.

I now run my own business, it has helped me every day in making decisions.

Yea, all those people with tech backgrounds who are CEOs.. they don't know how to make decisions and run a business. They must rely on humanities majors to do that. /s

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Anonymous wrote:Daniela Amodei, president of Anthropic, was an English literature major.
So to answer your question (and to follow up on many other answers here): a humanities major can do ANYTHING

I mean.. that's one in how many thousands? Did your humanities degree teach you statistics?

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God this thread is useless. OP asked about humanities grads from Ivies and half of these comments are explicitly about other schools. Humanities grads at Ivies get many of the same jobs as other students; this has been true for decades now. Much of this is due to the lack of preprofessional programs (though econ and CS have filled some of this space).

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Well, there's the entertainment industry.
Talent scout/agent at William Morris or Creative Artists Agency.
Screenwriters, showrunners, directors, editors.

There's also the sports, newscaster, etc... industry. Every player, newscaster, etc.. needs an agent.
STEM majors are not entertaining.

[Anonymous]

My child just graduated from a top 15 but non-Ivy school with a degree in history. This kid is going into politics and policy and has a legal/lobbying job lined up.

[Anonymous]

This is so highly dependent on the individual and what other things they have going on outside of their academic major (internships, jobs on campus, networking, people-skills) that it's hard to give a useful answer.

I was a STEM major, but most of my friends in college who had humanities degrees and were ambitious did just fine, even if they had meandering or unconventional paths. Many of them had done internships or volunteering (shadowing in a school, doing archival research, working on the marketing side for a tech startup, working with a state legislator) that conferred marketable skills and gave them a decent resume and network to draw upon when job-searching.

Also, even with my STEM major, I still had to hustle and have a useful and marketable track record of actual work when I was applying to jobs. Just showing up to a job interview and saying "I have a degree in chemistry" is not necessarily a guarantee of a job. You have to be strategic no matter what if you're not planning on immediately going to some professional-track grad school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Supervise stembots.

Nope, those are the jobs tech companies are slashing. "Managers" need to also be technical and will be expected to contribute, not just manage.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently declared there would no longer be "pure managers" at the company, while Block's Jack Dorsey and Snap's Evan Spiegel are pushing toward leaner, AI-powered teams where managers are expected to contribute directly

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/pure-managers-are-increasingly-at-risk-in-the-age-of-ai-8818234/

This will fall by thew wayside pretty quick. Meta tried to get rid of all of their program managers coming out of Covid because the engineers could handle these mundane things. Within months they were desperately trying to hire back entire PM groups that were cut. Same will happen with Managers once they realize that it is a very different task. I worked for Dorsey, he's an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Daniela Amodei, president of Anthropic, was an English literature major.
So to answer your question (and to follow up on many other answers here): a humanities major can do ANYTHING

Well, Daniela Amodei still owes me money from the class action lawsuit where she vacuumed the work of humanities majors for her AI models. Even English majors in tech are still vampires. Any day now, Daniela.

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In your country of origin, are there no teachers or historians or museums or libraries?

[Anonymous]

What do you do after earning a humanities degree from an Ivy League school? Simple…you either live off the income from your trust fund or become a very skilled barista at Starbucks before you break down and apply to law school.

[Anonymous]

Many of the kids in these majors already have the connections and pedigree to open doors for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you do after earning a humanities degree from an Ivy League school? Simple…you either live off the income from your trust fund or become a very skilled barista at Starbucks before you break down and apply to law school.

Thought humanities majors are critical thinkers and great writers that are resistant to AI