ALT-1 Careers the best Paths for Liberal Arts Majors
Liberal arts majors have taken a well rounded selection of courses in their college studies.
They are suited to perform well in a wide range of positions and the following may inspire and encourage liberal arts majors to use their education to follow a great career path.
Higher education is supposed to be for the purpose of increasing one's knowledge and intellect; not job training. The problem is too many people are merely suggesting a liberal arts degree is useless and such students should abandon education for the sake of education and bow down to obtain the almighty dollar.
What these naysayers don't realize is that colleges first formed as intellectual hotbeds of the best and brightest minds. Anyone can grind out a living for money, not everyone can become intellectually rich and cultured. Colleges grew in size and number, the 'average man' after a while was allowed entry and everyone had a chance to learn for the sake of learning.
Today's college students are more focused on making a dollar then making a difference. Granted I understand a balance between your passion and paying the bills is needed; but if your paying a lot for your education you might want to pay for knowledge not job training.
With all this said the best thing a liberal arts major can do is work hard to get good grades in their major as high GPAs in any major are impressive. Also since today's world measures intellect and success by one's paycheck after college, the liberal arts major can supplement their major with another major in business (or another job training type field) or even a minor. By doing this the liberal arts major will not be sacrificing the pursuit of knowledge (the whole point of paying for education) in order to pay the bills.
With the way the economy works today, anyone can make money if they put their minds to it in traditional or non-traditional ways. There is no reason someone should abandon their academic pursuits in order to make a living because it can be done either way. Learning for the sake of learning was the original point of paying for a college education.
I also suggest that business majors (or technical degree majors) look to pick up a minor in an area that interests them but might not help their bank account. Consider minors in Psychology, Philosophy, Art, History, really any of the humanities or academic areas. A business degree is not higher education unless it is supplemented by real academics and the feeling that you went to college and learned more then how to balance a spreadsheet.
