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elizzabethdarcy:
krushmaster:
thenarator:
as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.
serious question, what can you do with a bachelor’s in english?
take you in a fistfight, that’s for damn sure
Get four years of compliments (and the associated pay raises) about how your bug reports are absolutely the most clearly written and easiest to repro bug reports the dev team has ever seen.
(Then bail because the tech industry is honestly pretty toxic, and write cover letters that land you interviews for every job you apply at; you are offered the second one which is a nice desk job that pays less, is stable, has good benefits, and works really hard to make sure nobody ever has to work overtime.)
elizzabethdarcy:
krushmaster:
thenarator:
as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.
serious question, what can you do with a bachelor’s in english?
take you in a fistfight, that’s for damn sure
Get four years of compliments (and the associated pay raises) about how your bug reports are absolutely the most clearly written and easiest to repro bug reports the dev team has ever seen.
(Then bail because the tech industry is honestly pretty toxic, and write cover letters that land you interviews for every job you apply at; you are offered the second one which is a nice desk job that pays less, is stable, has good benefits, and works really hard to make sure nobody ever has to work overtime.)
