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If you have an English lit degree, what job do you do?

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OrlandoInTheWilderness · 20/01/2020 09:02

As title! If you have a degree in English lit, what job are you currently doing and how useful have you found it to be?
Thanks!

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NecklessMumster · 20/01/2020 20:56

Social worker. Literature to me is seeing things from other perspectives, as is social work.

user12345796 · 20/01/2020 20:56

I also have an MA in Social Work

HarrietSchulenberg · 20/01/2020 20:58

Literature degree from well respected northern redbrick uni. Have worked as media PA, training assistant, student support (not at my own university) and safeguarding role in a secondary school. Also been an unpaid events coordinator, school governor and handled a CIC's PR.

Old course mates are teachers, lecturers, a poet, an actor, journalist and PR and one retrained as a chartered accountant. She earns more than the rest of us.

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OrlandoInTheWilderness · 20/01/2020 21:05

For myself @NoSquirrels.

Thank you very much to everyone who has replied- it has really helped to get a wide viewpoint.

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Piggywaspushed · 20/01/2020 21:13

Another secondary teacher. Use my degree every day. In fact teaching has constantly refreshed my knowledge. I know more now that I ever did!
People I know are teachers, a lawyer , a university vice chancellor, a stand up, authors, a film director, and academics.

KentishMama · 20/01/2020 21:18

Marketing Director, travel / technology sector, big global company. I would love to say I use my degree, but realistically, the only transferable skills are critical thinking and knowing how to research something / go deep on a new subject very quickly.

FuckingHateRats · 20/01/2020 21:22

I teach English in a secondary school.

Tinyhumansurvivalist · 20/01/2020 21:25

Loved my degree!

I have done all sorts, mosy unrelated but I do private tutor and work with some local home Ed families

EustaciaPieface · 20/01/2020 21:27

Head of Marketing and Communications, specialise in digital marketing. My degree helped me get a job in a press office many years ago. Loved doing my degree.

Chanel05 · 20/01/2020 21:29

I'm a primary school teacher.

Austriana · 20/01/2020 21:30

I was an editor in a publishing house, now I work in the charity sector. Many of my cohort are journalists.

Royallyscrewed · 20/01/2020 21:47

Cyber security middle management level

loutypips · 20/01/2020 22:02

I work in publishing, hope to go in to do a masters in Writing and Publishing. Eventually I want to start my own small publishing company.

DramaAlpaca · 20/01/2020 22:09

My English degree is from a university that was top ten for the subject in the early 80s. It was fun to do, but hasn't really been relevant to my career at all.

MissElizaBennett · 20/01/2020 22:09

Curator of Rare Books (have worked with amazing collections at Oxford, and the Royal Archives). Also have a research masters in History of the Book, and a professional library qualification. My BA cohort include teachers, academics, editors, radio producers, and television documentary presenters.

NerdyBird · 20/01/2020 22:16

I work in the legal department for an academic publisher. I don't have any legal qualifications though! I used to work for the government - first in HR admin then a longer stint in publishing government documents. I didn't really keep in touch with many people from my degree, one did admin type jobs for a while then taught English as a second language. Another worked as a manager for a coffee shop and now works for Apple.

TooManyPaws · 20/01/2020 22:30

Management analyst in the public sector.

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