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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I'd encourage them to research what career they could develop from that major. I've been seeing more and more jobs seeking those with journalism and English degrees, which surprised me.

For example, technical writer, various communications professionals, digital marketers/copywriters.

B2B copywriters can earn a lot.

One of the most successful people I know from college was a theatre major earning well over $200K in communications. A personality and network will do a lot to help. This person has a way with people. 
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Generative AI says hi [/quote]

NP. I write and edit blogs and web materials. Guess what? Companies are turning to AI and then turning right back to humans to edit AI-generated materials because those materials still sound bot-like and so often are inaccurate, too. And before you chime in with "AI will soon improve until you're not needed!" -- sure, it'll improve, but only by being "trained" by human writers and editors. [/quote]

Not every company cares that the AI-generated materials sound bot-like.

Press releases generated by some 20-something communications major also sound bot-like.[/quote]

Put another way, 99% of corporate communication just needs to effectively communicate the equivalent of "the chicken crossed the road in order to get to the other side".

When a company issues an earnings press release, nobody cares how well that's written.  They just need to communicate that revenue went up this much and EPS went down this much and other facts about the quarter.

IPO prospectuses don't convince someone to invest or not...they are just exceptionally dry legal filings that contain tons of boilerplate language that for the most part cover the ass of the issuing company so they can tell you they highlighted some random risk in their SEC filing...it's your fault you didn't read the incredibly long boring document. [/quote]

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