exactly what jobs do you guys get after these courses? seriously, they dont seem like they will land you jobs.

I study Journalism.

I want to be a special ed. teacher. I need a degree (pretty much any), then I do my teacher training.

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Awe, I could see you doing that
You really need a lot of patience.
I think you'd be good though.

I don't give a shit. I always expected to spend most of my life working at a job I hated for peanuts, so I may as well have three years of studying something that I enjoy.

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I am doing a psychology & philosophy degree, & have just started 2nd year. my modules for the year are:
research methods (stats etc urgh boring)
cognitive psychology (i am excited about this)
developmental (meh, could be good)
concepts (involves too many presentations :/)
philosophy of mind (good!)
& ancient philosophy (<3 my lecturer is a bald guy who wears makeup & heels)

i'm excited more for next years modules, i get to do more philosophy. but hopefully all the psychology this year should be good, & at least i get to not do neuroscience which is a massive plus.

as far i understand (or at least as it works in the US), most people with degrees don't actually end up getting jobs relevant to what they've studied.

for me, i hope to go all the way through grad school (i'm hoping for a PhD) and i'll probably end up teaching at a university. but i've got a long way to go.

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I don't know about elsewhere, but in the UK I know there are a lot of positions to be had (usually as part of graduate programs) where the employers are looking for you to have a degree, any degree. So people can do something they enjoy for 3 or 4 years and then just get themselves a decently-paid job and get on with life. However, those positions maybe aren't so abundant as to provide a career for every arts/social sciences graduate in the country.

In Scotland, there's a free degree to be had on the government's money, and cheap loans. Why not go for it? You might be flipping burgers afterwards, but you've spent some years of your life (ideally) doing something fulfilling, and you might have been flipping burgers anyway without ever getting that fulfillment.

Mind you, I already had a career path in place before going to uni and I could go back to that. So I picked a degree course that I felt I'd enjoy. If I get a job/career out of my degree, that's a bonus. If not, I know I'm not going to be flipping burgers for the rest of my life. I guess that's a bit different.

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Deux hommes font une promenade amicale. L'un des deux porte un parapluie à son bras.
Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

Yeah, at least I'll be a Spanish-speaking burger flipper who can do draw syntactic trees and transcribe drive-thru orders into IPA.

i'm in my 3rd year of a bsc in psychology and philosophy.
my modules are,
toleration
feminist theory
philosophy of religion
ecopsychology
i'm meant to be doing a dissertation. but i've no idea what its going to be. probably something hilarious like horticultural therapy.

I'm just studying to become a barista. (Ugh, how I hate that word.) I just want a job making coffee.

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I'm a barista. Studying coffee and where it comes from and why that makes it taste different was boring, but I'm glad that I can make yummy lattes, lol.

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Woo! How long did your course go for? Mine is only a short course and most of it is done at home, it's boring as hell, but I need a job.

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atm, astronomy and art history - just classes I need to take so I can graduate in December.
I'm a film major.

sokkar, one of my dreams is to be a college professor, but I can't afford grad school.
It's ok though since I'm not in a place in my life where I could really commit to getting my masters let alone my PhD.

can you not get financial aid? also when you go to grad school, you can often be a student teacher for extra income. grad school isn't cheap, but it definitely seems doable, at least for me (not that i'm looking forward to the debt).

honestly i'd love to do other things than teach, but in the fields i want to study, there isn't much to be done other than teaching or researching and writing books no one will read.

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It's more personal stuff and the debt I already have that's keeping me from going. It's in my long term plan, but not for me right now especially after almost six straight years of college.

i'm earning a degree in history & American studies.
and am studying Russian as well...2nd year

SO I KNOW WHAT IM DOING NOW
museum and gallery studies
visual culture
themes in the history of art
the history of film theory

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visual culture and film theory sound really interesting, miss_scarlet

j/w if you've covered Laura Mulvey yet.