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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a former English major who now works in tech as a User Experience Researcher. User experience is a field at the intersection of fields like psychology, art, English, computer science, sociology, ergonomics, and more. In the field you do a wide variety of work but it often distills down to evaluating how people use software/hardware/experiences, etc. and identifying improvements to make them easier for people. I got a master’s in the subject but nowadays with your background in psychology you don’t need an advanced degree. you could consider finding an opportunity to do this work on campus and gain experience before you graduate- see if there are any professors doing research on usability, or ethnographic research. You could also pursue an internship in UX Research for an upcoming semester or Summer and then try to parlay that into a job. I work at a large FAANG company and really like it (have been here for over a decade), but there are a wide range of companies out there big and small, that do this work. And I find I use my English major every day- to read for comprehension, write reports, write compelling statements to get buy in from colleagues/ leadership/etc. Overall great pay, great benefits, slightlyyyy worried about what AI will do to the field, but I don’t see the impacts to my field as near term right now and I have built enough financial security in my 10 years in tech that I feel confident if something does happen. [/quote]

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