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**IronpumpedLady** · 10-08-2010, 07:41 AM

Did their liberal arts degrees actually help them to obtain their jobs, and if so, were said jobs outside of academia?

Yes. For example, people with English degrees (which is what you have, no?) can be successful in publishing (including new media), advertising, or could get jobs like copy editor for a variety of companies that need to produce written materials - most engineers couldn't write an set of instructions intelligible to anyone else.

At the very least, if you are not adverse to travel, you could make money going overseas to teach English, given that your command of the language is better than most peoples, and knowing English well is certainly a marketable skill.

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IronpumpedLady Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 544 Senior Member	Did their liberal arts degrees actually help them to obtain their jobs, and if so, were said jobs outside of academia? Yes. For example, people with English degrees (which is what you have, no?) can be successful in publishing (including new media), advertising, or could get jobs like copy editor for a variety of companies that need to produce written materials - most engineers couldn't write an set of instructions intelligible to anyone else. At the very least, if you are not adverse to travel, you could make money going overseas to teach English, given that your command of the language is better than most peoples, and knowing English well is certainly a marketable skill.
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