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what is your concentration within your major?
there are quite a few gigs that you could apply for reasonably that would spin out of the research element of the major....the famous "consulting" gigs to working for think tanks to reserach for tv/film production/writers for example. career councellors are pretty good at helping you figure out how to think about your major field in terms that are not those you get from folk who work in your department. i would see one, if you havent.
more directly:
teaching at the high school level can be ok.
there is a company called history inc. in washington that does research for hire.
the claim usually is that history gives you a fairly well rounded undergrad training that also would put you in a good place for law school (whatever)....
if you are thinking about grad school, i would seriously recommend that you take a bit of time off from school altogether before you do it...cast about a bit, do stuff, figure out what you might want to do.
my undergrad advisor told me when i was at the same point (more or less) as you are, 40rulz, that a phd outfits you to teach at a university and not much else, so you should be sure that you want to do it before you put yourself into the mill. i remember that he told me this during a conversation that got started because i found out that he had been awarded a large fellowship to study carnival in rio de janeiro. i liked that idea.
i have a phd in european history and teach at a university.
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