What can you do with Sociology/Psychology/Cultural Studies/Social Anthropology post-grad qualification

[onebatmother]

Apart from pat self on back?

I am thinking of retraining but no idea about jobs. Those are the things I'm considering studying - what REAL ACTUAL JOBS might I get with a postgrad MA/PHD in them?

I mean ones that pay money. Any money. But must be money.

Thanks dearies.

The whole area of what the DCs will find when they read MN in a few years' time simply doesn't bear thinking about.

10% off Hushpuppies advertisement is a sure sign that Mumsnet is brim-full of public sector types.

PW I know what you mean about family members. I once started a thread about MIL coming to us every Sunday and felt BAAAAAD afterwards. I now save such dilemmas for boring my friends with in person.

Ruty - that feels nice that we are the same MB type.

Hello! I thought yours was really quite accurate, Threadie - apart from the weird bit about being irrationally emotional, which seemed very wide of the mark.

I'm in London Bumper - where are you?

Ruty I would love to be in one of your films! I would! Just to be able to tell myself I'd done it.

The thing that's put me off before is that it is pretty much the Most Showy-Offy Thing In The World, and to push oneself forwards in media vitae seems self-deluded to the point of psychopathy. But I've often wondered if there was a way to have a go which didn't involve joining the Chingford and Loughton Amateur Players (Ladies Section).. I think I will regret it at eighty if I never give it a try

You see, everyone! I am sloughing off the dull pupa of my class and education, and breaking free - free as a glorious butterfly whose delicate, irridescent wings will shortly be burnt by the hot, hot flame of hubris.

Threadie, do you really think MN is for the socially aghast? I really don't, I don't think. Most of us are brought here initially by the necessary contractions of life involved in having children - and then discover that there is a certain freedom here to become immediately engaged with others without all the usual to-do. In fact, part of me would say that MN is for the socially adventurous, who have been stymied till now by social forms.

Actually I'm quite impressed with this personality type thing after reading the jobs recommended for our type Swedes:

'ENFP?s make excellent salespeople, advertising people, politicians, screen or play writers, and in general
are attracted to the interpretative arts, particularly character acting. People to people work is essential
for ENFP?s, who need the feedback of interaction with others. ENFP?s may find it difficult to work
within the constraints of an institution, especially in following rules, regulations, and standard operating
procedures.'

Been toying with the idea of becoming Prime Minister.

Yes, that's why I don't do any family/friends stuff - you don't know who may be reading and inadvertantly get very hurt.

ah well it is a very hot flame onebat....

OBM - do you know about The Poor School? Know a couple of people who've been there and it's supposed to be good.

you probably don't need me to say this, but if you are really thinking about the acting profession, it is very hard to actually make any money, especially now. The number of major drama school trained actors i know at the moment out of work is a bit And if you have children, the hours are crap, and you can never plan anything, forget about planning a family holiday because an audition might come up at the last minute, etc.

The Poor School is probably quite good, but in my day it didn't produce many actors that actually got work, probably because there are so many other schools for casting agents to choose from.

I have finally got to the top of this exhausting career ladder /thread.

Don't do a course, from what you've said you seem to lack confidence - in a nice normal way that most people do, is not supposed to be a criticism or ENT insight - I think doing a course is you putting things off tbh.

Only do a course if at the end you are going to be a plumber. Do not become an actor. Take no courses. Stoppit with the courses, unless it's to become a plumber or an electrician.

How about looking at arts admin? You'd be good at that, and you could wing that one. Or press officer for charity, or similar? Have you looked at jobs on the Arts Council website for instance?

Do you really make films ruty? How exciting. What sort?

Onebat, lol at delicate wings and flames of hubris. You will fly to the horizon of a bright new monster career like Insectivorous in Monsters v. Aliens.

No, I suppose I don't really think MN is exclusively for the socially aghast (lol), But I did think the percentage of the aghast would be higher.

Hallo everyone,

I am INFP too (although feel the need to declare a 49/51 score on the thinking/feeling spectrum) and am also wondering why there are so very many extroverts on here. Perhaps it's just that none of the other introverts are willing to share their results in public.

Onebat, I feel there are a thousand really important jobs you would do brilliantly but am too hopeless about this sort of thing to think how you might get to them. Do you think there might be something interesting for you in the Civil Service? I suspect you might rise quickly to the top where you would uncover some kind of monstrous scandal, and defy all gagging orders to bring it to public attention. (Perhaps then you might fulfil your thespian fantasies by playing yourself in the story of your life in a three part dramatisation on ITV.)

do your friends get work PW? Genuinely interested, it might have a higher profile nowadays.

Another INFP! That is not a surprising result Iorek (except that you seem socially extrelemy competant)

I though mINFP result overplayed thinking in relation to feeling too, Iorek.

That should be

I thought my INFP ...

Here would you like to be a media officer?

I won't suggest anything else. I don't even know what a media officer does actually, sorry. But I think all this thinking alive with opportunity, and v. g. for dipping toes in water etc

I meant underplayed of course. Blimey, I really should take more time over my posts.

Oh yes Threadie. I make lots of films. Well one. Short. Pre-children. So far. And shortlisted for a feature film development award. But didn't get it. Onward and upward.

I thought MINF was some new obscene PT abbreviation.

IB where have you been?

ruty - one of the people I know who trained there gets work pretty regularly, although he has to have other jobs on the side. Not the others though.

Fantastic ruty. I hope you get the opportunity to do more.

I can't promise to act in one, but I will hold the rostrum camera if Ken Morse will lend it to me, or I will be the key grip. I am good at gripping keys. It is an INFP characteristic.

Just thought to look at yer actual academic options, onebat.

Lect. in Film Practice

key grip would be great threadie. Don't mind if you're introverted. As long as you're muscly.

More senior, but useful guide

AHRC Studentships - Soton, so no good, but again an idea