I should probably acquire some sort of job skill

[Wiglaf]

It is sad to see the pathetic thread starter blaming career services for telling him he would get a job with a ****ing English degree. Do you know what kind of people end up in career services? People who couldn't get jobs with their ****ing English degrees.

(I'm getting some tonight by the way)

[Asher]

Oh look a civil servant with an arts degree is mocking another

[giblets]

So, my term at the census is ending. I can't parlay my term there into anything useful, and as an English major pretty much the best I can hope for is an office assistant opening, which is a career dead-end. And now even the competition for those openings is fierce. I'm tired of being a useless prolonged-adolescence manchild skating through on nothing. I get a cold, empty feeling just looking at job listings, because I'm qualified for nothing. Yes, you all told me so, I know. But I'm in good company, with the hordes of English, Humanities, Sociology, Philosophy, Art, Music, American Studies, Women's Studies and a host of other majors. **** our worthless educational system. **** it sideways, with my whole redundant generation of man-children and the career services toads who tell us employers are looking for good communicators. If Western Civilization ends, we will be in the vanguard against it, tearing it down with our retail stocking and customer service jobs while the Chinese build spaceships or something.

It's not our educational system that's worthless, it's the people who choose worthless majors.

[DaShi]

Actually. Elok. Wiglaf has a point. You could always go into politics.

[Cort Haus]

Getting some what, Wiggy? Some pork-sword?

[giblets]

This. Excellent advice.

I'm in the same boat as you Elok.

Wait, I thought you were capable of amassing large quantities of money with just an hour's work.

[Asher]

Businesses like people who excel at analysis.

People who are good at analysis know not to get an art degree. Simple analysis will tell you that.

[Ben Kenobi]

Wait, I thought you were capable of amassing large quantities of money with just an hour's work.

And so is he. Your point?

[Wiglaf]

I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in running the government and OH WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT! I am running the government. Some may call that art but it really isn't. It is success. I have passion. I don't quote poetry all day and pay to have my memoirs published while I flip pizza. I get results.

[Darius871]

@ OP: strong English skills + whatever analytical skills I'm assuming English majors have to flex at some point = law school being a breeze. FFS, I even knew an art history major in the top 10% of her law school class at Northwestern, and if that's not more worthless than English I don't know what is. By the time you're done in 3 years, no employer will even notice, much less care, what your bachelor's was in. **** man, you wouldn't even have to put it on your resume since a bachelor's is implied.

Edit: unless your class rank ends up blowing

[DaShi]

You're also afraid of mice.

[DaShi]

strong English skills + whatever analytical skills I'm assuming English majors have to flex at some point = law school being a breeze

Do that patent law stuff. You don't even need to go to school. Just take the test.

[Jon Miller]

What did you do for the Census? Can we see your resume?

JM

[Darius871]

@ OP: strong English skills + whatever analytical skills I'm assuming English majors have to flex at some point = law school being a breeze. FFS, I even knew an art history major in the top 10% of her law school class at Northwestern, and if that's not more worthless than English I don't know what is. By the time you're done in 3 years, no employer will even notice, much less care, what your bachelor's was in. **** man, you wouldn't even have to put it on your resume since a bachelor's is implied.

Edit: unless your class rank ends up blowing

Wait, scratch that - I wasn't yet privy to this unfortunate news:

Law Schools Now Require Applicants To Honestly State Whether They Want To Go To Law School

September 15, 2010

NEW YORK — A growing number of law schools have begun requiring applicants to specify in writing whether they do, in fact, have some desire to attend law school, or are just using it as a predictable last resort. "We want to separate those who actually see themselves becoming attorneys from those who just want to put off joining the adult world for another three years," Fordham Law School director Bruce Green said Thursday, showing reporters an application that asks students to check boxes marked "Really?" and "Seriously? You're really that into this?" "We want prospective students to know that they will actually have to study the U.S. legal system. As in, the whole thing." Word of the new requirement has already reportedly caused a 450 percent spike nationwide in applications to graphic design schools.

Link

I suppose theoretically you could lie, but when the law examiners interview your acquaintances and expose the deception and it could keep you from getting admitted to the bar. Bad idea.

[Al B. Sure!]

I want to go to law school but I don't think I want to be an attorney either