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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]History major here. Worked for several years after getting my BA in a variety of admin positions across real estate, consulting, and tech firms. Then went back for my - wait for it - MSLS, hi fellow librarian mom. :) But I found I didn't really want to work in a library (I hear you on the bottom of the totem pole thing, sigh) so I went back into administration. Now in senior management at a nonprofit, but sometimes eye a jump back to the corporate world which I may yet do.

In my crowd, my closest history major friend (BA) now works in the intelligence field and has been all around the world. Closest English major friend (also only a BA) is high up in some tech startup and makes way more money than me (or my STEM PhD DH for that matter...whom I also outearn, incidentally). Best friend from college who majored in foreign languages works at a global ed tech firm. And a former roommate who majored in philosophy is now doing really well in politics.

As the English professor above noted, a liberal arts degree often fosters excellent writing and communication, not to mention critical thinking, skills and those are always going to be in demand. Lots one can do with degrees like English, history, philosophy or foreign languages![/quote]

Hi librarian mom from a fellow librarian mom!   :D    You were smart to decide to stay out of the library, in my opinion.  It sounds like your history major served you well and you have enjoyed your career - always great news~

I am towards the end of my career, but as I said, I often don't feel so valued in my federal agency.  My salary grade is the same as the administrative assistants, who have zero education!   I thought about returning to school for something else, but now I am just too close to retirement and too tired!   I don't want what I had to put up with for my DD as a librarian.  :(

Your history major friends sound like they have interesting jobs too.  I find this college thing so baffling from when I went.. so different!

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