While a B.A. in English isn’t going to earn you a six-figure salary out of undergrad, it does open up a surprisingly large number of career paths.
In the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, the lead character sings: “What do you do with a B.A. in English / What is my life going to be? / Four years of college and plenty of knowledge, / Have earned me this useless degree.”
If you’ve been paying much attention to financial news lately and you are—or are thinking about becoming—an English major, you may very well fear landing in this precise situation in four years! Howev