What do you major in and any interest in careers so far?

I’m a postgraduate student in classical studies (i.e. Greek and Roman things), specialising in archaeology – so, basically, the point of that would be to become an archaeologist, ideally with a lecturing position at a university (preferably an English-speaking one).  Jobs like that are in short supply relative to the number of applicants, though.  I might end up as a contract archaeologist, or doing something completely different – a lot of humanities PhDs wind up dying in a gutter because they can’t contemplate the idea of leaving academia, but if you can get over yourself long enough to apply for something else, there are actually a fair few jobs where a degree like that looks pretty impressive – high school teachers get a much higher starting salary if they come to the job with a PhD, for instance (and since I have a science degree as well there are probably several subjects I could teach at a high school level).

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