English/ History/ Foreign Language majors? Talk to me!

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There are many ways to earn a good living in the arts if you're smart, energetic, and have good writing and people skills. Broadway itself is a billion dollar business that requires producers, agents, managers, publicists, and more, not to mention crew personnel who make union wages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are many ways to earn a good living in the arts if you're smart, energetic, and have good writing and people skills. Broadway itself is a billion dollar business that requires producers, agents, managers, publicists, and more, not to mention crew personnel who make union wages.

You don't need a college degree to be crew. Better to have trained as a carpenter etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH and I were both English majors - at different colleges.

He runs a very high profile TV production company. Until I started having kids, I represented TV writers, as an agent.

We did not meet through TV work, either.

are you guys conventionally attractive and or attended top schools?

Getting on the agent training program at caa, wme, icm, uta is NOT easy

yes

Thought so.

Your advice is irrelevant to most moms asking questions here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH and I were both English majors - at different colleges.

He runs a very high profile TV production company. Until I started having kids, I represented TV writers, as an agent.

We did not meet through TV work, either.

are you guys conventionally attractive and or attended top schools?

Getting on the agent training program at caa, wme, icm, uta is NOT easy

yes

Thought so.

Your advice is irrelevant to most moms asking questions here.

Even the Ivy moms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH and I were both English majors - at different colleges.

He runs a very high profile TV production company. Until I started having kids, I represented TV writers, as an agent.

We did not meet through TV work, either.

are you guys conventionally attractive and or attended top schools?

Getting on the agent training program at caa, wme, icm, uta is NOT easy

yes

Thought so.

Your advice is irrelevant to most moms asking questions here.

I didn't give any advice. I just answered the question. If you could actually read, you'd have seen that, you bitter and twisted freak.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’ve said what she doesn’t like and want. But what classes does she enjoy? What activities does she do that she loves? Let her explore based on her interests and find the right fit for her.

HI again. What great responses! I am the OP. DD loves to read and does very well in her AP Lang and AP History and Government Classes. Loves the Media in Society class she is in. AS I said, she can do math but steers waaay clear of any AP courses in either math or science.

Her talent is that she has an excellent singing voice! She has taken voice and piano lessons since she was 8. Beautiful soprano voice. Loves choir, was one of the leads in the fall musical and loves musical theater.

WE would like for her to continue to enjoy voice and theater in college for sure! The catch is that we don't see much 'future' in it and don't want her waiting tables for years.

So, we would like to find college where she can major in something more useful than "musical theater" but have those interests as minors or extracurriculars.



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Sounds like Oberlin, Lawrence, or maybe Vassar. Great undergraduate ecucation, with incredibly strong arts on the side. And at every admissions percentage point.

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I was a history major and am a screenwriter in Los Angeles.

[Anonymous]

I was a history major in 2007. Now a successful lawyer working in healthcare. Did not think I wanted to go to law school.

[Anonymous]

My Italian and English Lit double major sister is the head of media relations for a smallish company many of you will have heard of. She makes good money and writing is her bread and butter.

[Anonymous]

Does she want to major in musical theater? If so, look at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, NYU, USC, U Michigan, Northwestern and UCLA. There are people making big money in the arts; why not her?

[Anonymous]

History major. Now work in education policy for a nonprofit. Public policy MA. Make a very reasonable salary.

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History BA and PhD from top state schools. Now a history professor at an SLAC.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi! Just curious if you were any of the above majors, could you tell me what you do now. Or if your child is studying any of the above things, what do you think they will do with it.

DD simply arbors math, physics and thinks she hates any kind of science. Sad, she had a really lousy biology teacher freshman year at her school and is so turned off. Whatever.

Doesn’t want to be a lawyer, teacher, or librarian. Teachers are so horribly treated theses days and I am a librarian and they finish lowest on the totem pole in my federal agency. Unappreciated and underpaid.

I am asking because we are trying to choose colleges that might have additional areas that she can minor in to make such a degree more marketable.

Wish I had a stem kid. But I don’t! Sweet kid. NO STEM.

So.... that's truly terrible.
I majored in philosophy, then worked at an investment bank, then got my master's, now work in consulting. Not from a T25 or highly regarded SLAC.
Humanities/social science majors pose no issue in job security for a student that is adept at representing themselves/communicating well.

Foreign language major here, and same. Bounced between finance and consulting for a bit. I'm in VC right now.

[Anonymous]

Interpreter - translator here. I love my job but it's has been changing a lot and I would not recommend it to the new generation.

[Anonymous]

I majored in a language and became a teacher, then went back to get my Ph.D. and am now a professor at a large state school.