Can I get a job abroad with a US law degree or a US politics bachelors degree?

A history degree gets you a job at Starbucks or Home Depot. The Smithsonian has people with PhDs in history working as volunteer guides. Before the early 20th Century, a college degree was not meant to train a person for a job.

A college education was for personal enrichment. To turn you into an educated person with skills in critical thinking to allow you to take up a career in public administration, the clergy or business where you would learn on the job. There was no intention for a degree to train you for a specific career.

However since the 1940’s the expectation of the public about a college or university degree has changed and a college or university education is now expected to lead you to a career. Unfortunately the college and university system has not changed with the times. A degree in Anthropology, Archeology, Art, Art History Creative Writing, Film, General Studies, History, Humanities, Language & Culture, Liberal Arts, Liberal Studies, Literature, Political Science, most any language including English, Media, Music History, Paleontology, Photography, Philosophy, Religious Studies or Sociology is considered a "personal enrichment" degree.

Journalism is heading this way too. Also pretty well anything called “Something Studies”. That is, these degrees are degrees that are meant to enrich you personally in the classical sense of a university education without leading to any specific job.

These degrees sometimes result in a position in academia if you go on to get a PhD though there is an oversupply of PhDs for all the academic jobs that come up in these fields. However, in today's world where people go to university to enable themselves to get a job and hopefully a career a bachelor's in these fields is essentially useless. With a degree in these fields and a GPA generally over 3.0 you can: 1.

Get into law school. However law schools today graduate far more lawyers than there is business for lawyers. 2.

Get into graduate school in a different field. Hopefully one without too many prerequisites you do not have. Consider getting a masters in Technology Management.

You can make a similar salary to an engineer but you need essentially no sciences prerequisites. 3. Get into graduate school in the same field and eventually into a PhD so you can become a college professor in this field someday.

However, there are far more PhD grads in some fields like Philosophy than there ever will be professorships or any kind of teaching programs. 4. Take a teaching qualification, which is usually 2 more years, so you can teach the subject at a public K-12 school.

Someone once told me, the second most useless undergrad degree is a BA in History. I have one. However, I had no intention of "going all the way"...I didn't want to spend half my viable working life in school.

That's fine. I am pleased that I can feed my addition to history almost anywhere I go or any party I attend. If you want to do ANYTHING in the field, you must consider PhD'ing it.

A Masters will get you a posting at a university, but only with plans to pursue the PhD. I have no regrets. It was fun, interesting and fed my learning addiction.

Maybe consider a BA Hist. , but a followup with perhaps a Masters in Public Admin or something of the like. Good luck.

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