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[quote=Anonymous]There is plenty other than law or teaching that a liberal arts major can do.  I am a Foreign Service Officer, but came to it in a roundabout way.  After graduating from GWU with a Political Science degree and a Russian minor, I worked in retail for a year until I landed a job on Capitol Hill.  I worked for four years on the Hill making peanuts, but the experience was well worth it.  When the USSR collapsed in 1991, I decamped for Russia without a job and started out teaching for rubles at a Russian university and then working for a U.S. non-profit recruiting Russian students to study on exchange programs in the U.S.  My one year in Moscow turned into five when I landed a job at the Embassy where I combined my U.S. political experience with my Russian language and area expertise to consult with the Embassy on training and exchanges with the U.S. Congress, FEC and local and state governments and Russian government institutions.  During that time, I learned the ins and outs of government contracting and parlayed that into a contract position with USAID and then was hired into the Foreign Service.  This led to stints in Africa and Asia and back to Russia and now to Eastern Europe.  It has been great!

At the beginning of my career, I made little:  First job:  $17K (inflation adjusted $25K); Second job: $25K (inflation adjusted $45K); Third job:  $45K (inflation adjusted:  $72,000); Fourth job:  $65K (inflation adjusted: $93K).  I am now well into six figures.  However, I don't  do the job for the money.  Despite that, I amassed with savings and investments assets over $1 million.

The point is, there is everything that a liberal arts major can do.  Why not Google "what you can do with a liberal arts career?"   It is more than law and teaching, and the former is certainly no guarantee of a high paying job.  More like "Better Call Saul."  [/quote]

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