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How's that job hunt with your lit degree going?

>> No.10070118

>>10070102
Oldfag here. I have a lit Phd from an average school and I make $160k a year as a department chair. If you're not a retard there are plenty of opportunities out there. I had to slave as a professor making sub 70k for a while though, which was fun and easy. Paid off my school loans before I was 35.

>> No.10070121

>>10070118
any job that I can do with a lit degree that isn't teaching?

>> No.10070124

LDS Bishop gave me a job

EZPZ

>> No.10070128

I work at a bookstore, warehouse

>> No.10070130

>>10070102
currently making $300k per year at a hedge fund
job hunt was pretty easy. had competing offers from google and goldman sachs, among others, before senior year wrapped up.

>> No.10070132

>>10070121
I know litfags that work in editing/publishing but idk shit about that. I'm not very knowledgeable on jobs outside of academia but academic administration is the place to be if you care about money. You pretty much have to teach for a while first though.

>> No.10070135

>>10070124
abusing the blessings of dumbass Mormons gave me a lot of opportunities in life
>t. Exmormon

>> No.10070149

>>10070132
is possible to get a job doing technical writing or translations?

>> No.10070166

>>10070149
Certainly. The problem I and many others have is finding the opportunities for work. I fucking hate "networking" and putting myself out there, but if you have connections you can usually find something.

Sadly, if you aren't from an upper class family with high social standing in a major city you aren't going to be gifted a job. I came from a lower middle class family and made my way up with no connections. Now I'm suicidal.

>> No.10070169

>>10070135

True. They have paid my rent so many times in return I just volunteer two hours of my time. Also when they refill your pantry and you get some of that Mormon tang life is good.

>> No.10070179

>>10070169
I've never met a well read Mormon desu. They read the Book of Mormon and call it quits. They love working like drones and thrive on highly visible acts of kindness. I envy them. I was raised in it and I found out it was bullshit heresy when I was 10. Good times. Grew up in Spanish Fork Utah.