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Originally Posted by LordEden
Here is my real question: You have a degree (whatever level) and you realize that you want nothing to do with the job market that surrounds your degree. Do you give up on all that time you put into it or do you bite your lip and get a job that you know you will hate?
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I will have a degree in Anthropology in June. I don't want to work in the Cultural Resource Management field (I destroyed my wrist digging over the summer, and I do volunteer work in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office where they review CRM reports.. I hear all kinds of horror stories regarding practices and ethics, yuck), I don't want to get a Ph.D. in Anthropology and spend 10 years of my life worrying about tenure, and jobs aren't very available in the preservation office (the one niche in the field of Archaeology that I actually enjoy). So guess what! I'm screwed!
I've known for at least a year now that going to graduate school is a requirement for me with a B.S. in Anthro. There's not much you can do without grad school, unfortunately. The problem, however, came in choosing a field again. I've looked at library science, biostatistics, engineering, etc. and I have finally settled on education. It's a field I always came back to when I'd have a "career goals crisis" and I have experience working with kids in a semi-educational environment (camp) and enjoyed it. It's also a job that exists everywhere and needs more people constantly. So, logical choice.
I pushed back my graduation until June so I can take a handful of classes that are prerequisites for middle childhood education. I'm going to apply to a school in VA for just certification, and apply to OSU for their master's program. Actually, OSU has already just about offered me a fellowship for their master's program, but I'm terrified of hitting a wall in the job market by being "overqualified" compared to a lot of other new teachers with just a B.A. Now I'm just in the "wait and see" period.