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Anonymous Sun Aug 4 20:24:14 2019 No.13586474 [Reply] [Original]

Any anons here get an English degree? What are you doing now?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 4 23:51:16 2019 No.13587283 >>13586474 contemplating suicide

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 00:01:05 2019 No.13587322 >>13586474 I have a Master's in English. I am a high school English teacher. Do not do it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 00:03:11 2019 No.13587329 mostly posting

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 00:08:33 2019 No.13587351 SSDI recipient.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 00:09:41 2019 No.13587356 I have a computer science degree and I work all the time and don't read anymore

Anonymous Mon Aug 5 00:09:45 2019 No.13587358
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>intern at a shitty local school teaching fucking zoomers
>fortnite dances, memes, autistic adhd retards screeching for no fucking reason all the time and i am forced to cooperate with them

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:06:15 2019 No.13587860 >>13587358 Don't think ill ever be a teacher, good luck.

Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:11:47 2019 No.13587872
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English degree = you're teaching English. Which can be awesome, but I think teaching English is something you should do when you're an old eclectic fuck and ready to stop grinding the thing you were a little more passionate about.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:13:06 2019 No.13587881 >>13587872 what do you do before you're an old eclectic fuck asking for a friend haha

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:14:07 2019 No.13587884 I have a PhD

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:14:57 2019 No.13587887 >>13587881 Become an architect, filmmaker, or astronomer

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>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:20:31 2019 No.13587893 Working part-time as a supervisor

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:21:12 2019 No.13587895 >>13587887 is it actually possible to become an architect with an English degree? Don't you need some mathematics or drawing ability at least?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:23:25 2019 No.13587897 >>13586474 English Lit BA here, I work part-time as a librarian and make up the rest of my income by gigging regularly I honestly can't complain, although I'd like it if I could drop the library job altogether and become a full-time musician.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 03:28:27 2019 No.13587907 >>13587895 The point is that you shouldn't get an English degree, unless it's at Yale/Berkeley or under some other exceptional circumstance.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 04:33:09 2019 No.13588087 >>13586474 Dilating

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 07:42:09 2019 No.13588519 I research and write for an online publication. I got a Master’s degree though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 11:09:38 2019 No.13589301 Bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 11:14:27 2019 No.13589325 >>13586474 Why the hell do you need an English degree.You basically have all the tools available to give yourself a rudimentary English 'degree'. Study something useful.

Anonymous Mon Aug 5 11:31:09 2019 No.13589379

>>13586474

I graduated with an English degree at the end of 2018. During my final semester I took a capstone that was focused on analyzing the value of the degree itself... If I had known at the beginning what I learned in that class, then I wouldn't have majored in English. Now I'm seven months out of school with no offers. It's not like I don't have the necessary experience either: I had a year-long internship as a communications officer for a local government agency, and I worked with my college's student newspaper for over two years including as its editor-in-chief. I have not gotten a single interview, and to be quite honest I feel like I was duped. I'm currently pursing an apprenticeship in a trade. I'd be making just as much if not more as a skilled laborer than what the average English major earns anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 12:28:57 2019 No.13589602 >>13589325 Useful things are boring and I would rather kill myself than be a coding monkey. I already have enough issues as it is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 12:46:06 2019 No.13589654 >>13587322 Me too, but I didn't get an English degree, I got a different degree. You're not a fan of the profession?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 13:03:34 2019 No.13589735 >>13587322 >Do not do it. Is being a high school English teacher really that bad?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 13:08:31 2019 No.13589750 >>13589735 well if being a high school english student is anything to go by

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 13:08:44 2019 No.13589753 >>13589735 It's not, but teachers love to be dramatic about it. t. teacher

Anonymous Mon Aug 5 13:27:08 2019 No.13589828

>>13589735
Girls are only willing to fuck the STEM teachers for better grades and the PE coach for daddyness. Nobody gives a shit about the English teacher. In fact you're one of the most likely teachers to be seen as effeminate and pathetic, prone to being laughed at and humiliated. Expect to be doxxed for any vulnerabilities that can be used against you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 13:27:29 2019 No.13589832 >>13587283 Bruh you should try nofap

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 13:40:38 2019 No.13589901 I have a double major in English and Philosophy. Im in law school right now. Law was always the goal, but English and Phil was a pleasant way to fulfill that goal.

Anonymous Mon Aug 5 18:16:45 2019 No.13591129

>>13589325
>You basically have all the tools available to give yourself a rudimentary English 'degree'.
Unless you're an idiot savant, its unlikely you'll develop the same kind of close-text analysis skills and appreciation for the finer gradients of the art. Dependant on the teaching, naturally. Why implicate something as banal as utility with the lofty towers of knowledge?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 18:18:05 2019 No.13591137 High School English Teacher. I love my work. I get to teach seniors this year. I own a brewery on the side.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 18:19:06 2019 No.13591140 >>13587872 not necessarily true. I know people who used their English degrees to get jobs in marketing, and project managing.

Anonymous Mon Aug 5 18:24:14 2019 No.13591158

>>13591137
Going for an English ba and my teaching certification. Where do you live? My only concern is that I'll have trouble finding a job in NY. I'm willing to suffer for a bit tho because once I get in, pay is pretty good here and that pension is sweeett

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 22:24:46 2019 No.13592094 >>13586474 Bumping because in between degrees and lost currently. Not really ever an /academia/ thread up and I don't feel like I need to make a new thread for just myself really.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 22:32:42 2019 No.13592131 >>13592094 Is your IQ greater than 125? Do a philosophy degree.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 22:49:48 2019 No.13592189 Is teaching high school English really the only option for people with English degrees?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 23:00:16 2019 No.13592213 >>13592189 You can teach english overseas although typically any 4 year degree qualifies you

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 23:04:23 2019 No.13592227 Making the best damn pot of coffee I can for mininum wage plus tip.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 23:07:36 2019 No.13592237 >>13586474 Tech writing. It's fine and I can work on my novel at night.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 23:09:37 2019 No.13592242 >>13592237 What is tech writing

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 5 23:14:23 2019 No.13592255 >>13592237 What city do you live in? Do you think there a lot of technical writing opportunities in nyc or would I have to move to california or some shit?

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