Bachelor's degree, what now.

You could go to graduate school and then teach at a CC or as a adjunct (however you spell it) at a university

 

Did you do any internships at school? Maybe try to find work in something you already have experience in until you find something else or decide to go to grad school. It's kinda hard to look for work that doesn't require hard work, even if something is hard it can be rewarding and worth doing.

 

Maybe you could work for a local paper for a while?

I also recently read that magazines will buy stories. (Is this true?!)
Start sending any and everyone your work??!

 

Well I'm currently working on an Organic farm and it kicks ass! But it'll be over soon and I'm currently looking for a new job but I have some leads..

 

To all the haters out there.... I found a KICKASS job with excellent pay/bennies. So if you have an english degree... dont fret... you dont have to be a teacher. You can get a good job doing what you want to do. I'm working on a hydroponic farm! Yay : )

 

Nice! Good for you! It sounds like you're getting some real skills, skills that will allow you to feed yourself and others, unlike so many "professionals" with more "useful" degrees who contribute nothing of any real value to society, many of whom are now joining the ranks of the unemployed...

 

Hey man you were actually one of the people that were really helpful and positive after my original post. Thanks for that. And thank you now for your vote of confidence. I am thrilled to have landed such a great job - especially considering these tough economic times. I start tomorrow at 7:30 sharp. Wish me luck! Seeeeeeeeeeeeee ya!

 

Like Mellow Yellow said, it is all about getting the skills you need (mainly reading and writing). I was a philosophy major and used to hear the kind of stuff Allonym was sayig all the time (then I found out that Fortune did a study and found that the only correlation for success in business is a degree in philosophy). Arizona University did a study where they found that liberal arts majors have a higher job satisfaction and usually higher incomes than those with professional degrees in the long run because they have much better reading and writing skills, and reading and writing skills are the most important skills to have. If you have reading and writing skills, then you can pretty much learn how to do anything else.

 

I just happened to peek at this thread after decriminalize posted and it inspired me, I hope the job's working out for ya.

The ability to think clearly, be creative and open-minded, and solve complex problems, that's what a college degree can give you if you do it right. Any schmuck with a few active brain cells can play the game and become a doctor or lawyer or whatever folks define as "successful", but it's what you take with you from the education experience that counts, no matter what you do with it, if you're knowledgeable you'll be more effective, and you'll have more options and freedom as a result.

My father was a philosophy professor who valued education for it's own sake, and it used to really piss him off to hear his students talk about college education like it was some sort of commodity, a means to an end for the sole purpose of getting a good job.

Besides, a college degree no longer guarantees you a good job anyway, no matter what it's in.

 

Mellow Yellow
your father sounds like he was a pretty cool guy who thought a lot like I do. I am a philosophy TA and many of the students think that since it is "only" a philosophy course, they don't actually have to do any work. Their thinking is that they won't actually use any of the skills they learn in the class. That usually makes me pretty mad.

 

I hear ya, man, but it's basically the result of a value-system imposed by a self indulgent, arrogant culture that values marketing over technology, perception over reality, electronic games over books...which is pretty pathetic when you consider that other comparable first world countries are so much more educated than we are.

 

Hey yall.. Just checking in. The new job is Sweet! Hope all is well with everyone.

 

Right back at cha, good to hear things are going well.