So what's my degree for then?
I have worked very hard to achieve my bachelors degree in English by this May and last night my fiance and I had a talk about me using my degree to achieve a career at least for the time being. I want to pursue my education further but not right now as I am really just over-worked from everything and then there is the move and wedding. He said that there are not job openings for people with English majors that it's only a stepping stone to something further and right now I am just burnt out and don't even know what I want to do to further my education, i.e. what to get my masters or PHD in. One day I would like to own my own bookstore and he said that even working at a bookstore could give me things to learn from to apply to what I want later and granted that I could move up in the company since I had a degree. To me this seems like a waste of my degree. What is my degree for then? If I can't use it to find a job after I graduate at least in the feild of writing, reading or journalism type of work. *Sigh*
Jessica,
I think that your decision as to whether to pursue a writing position or a job in a bookstore needs to be based upon your career goals. If you want to be a writer or journalist, then focus on that. If you want to own a bookstore, then your fiance is right and working in a bookstore would be super.
For more thoughts, see my today in the CollegeRecruiter.com Blog at http://www.collegerecruiter.com/weblog/archives/2006/01/are_degrees_use.php .