Career as a Historian?

Question

Now, i realise that uni for me is about 5 years away but i want to get a career as a historian. Are there any historians out here? How do you like your job? Can you tell me a bit about what you actually do? thanks.

Answer 1

Cannot answer as a historian - - - at best I can claim amature status - - - that said if you have the passion the drive the desire then go for it. If you only make it to the level of a school teacher and must stick with a regimented plan albeit delivered with your own flair and don't find it scary teaching children for six to eight hours a day you are guaranteed a pay check of thirty five to seventy five thousand on average anywhere in the US of A. Toss in a foreign language or two and you can actually live 'good' in places such as Japan and China where they truly want USA borned & raised teachers who can speak in their language to their students; your pay might not be any 'better,' but getting the chance to live in Japan or China for a few years could be a wow.

Then there are those historians who write - - - - most make an aggrevate wage of a hundred grand a year and modest sales - - - most have an academic job as a hedge.

In the World of the Discovery History National Geographic Arts & Entertainmentr Travel Channel Etc Etc Channel World you can best combine a love for History with skills/talents as a writrer/film maker/ personality & face and any combination of the above. The challenges are there and it can be scary awaiting payment for ones efforts but if it supports your love for history then go for it. Again wages for documentarians tops out around two hundred G a year.

This is the modern world. YOU Define the Job. The Job does not Define You. If you 'love' history and have a passion for history and wish to make it a carreer go for it. I know surfers who love history who now run Surf museums and go splash in the water with camers and that is their job.

A final note - - - School is about contacts, making the friends that will carry you through life. Education is essential but it takes second place to making contacts, nurturing contacts those contacts connecting you to the future.

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Answer 2

If you major in history, be prepared for more education. You need a Masters or a PhD to be marketable as a professor. And you should publish. You can be a historian for a town or city, or corporation or institution, but you need to be published and you need that PhD. Choose a specialty, an area you like.

Otherwise, you can consider law, politics, languages and/or working crumby low wage jobs and hating life.

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