job prospects for history

im applying for history and considering two pretty prestigious unis (not to flex but bc i’ve heard some jobs take unis into consideration)

whenever i tell family they just tell me i’m doing a worthless degree and how although it’s hard, all i can be is a teacher. i’ve heard of people doing history and going into teaching and law and although i don’t mind those jobs, they aren’t what i want to do.

was just wondering what jobs apart from those i could look into?

of course your job is just to make money to live but i don’t wanna do a job that won’t be fulfilling considering i’ll spend 2/3 of my day working and i’d like to work a job where i could make money (not a crazy amount but just to be able to live better than i do currently)

As history is not a type of degree required for any specific job (e.g. it's not medicine, law, engineering, etc.), you can apply for jobs that don't require you to have a degree in any specific subject.

The random careers that you would be eligible for with no further training post A Levels include:

If you decide to go back to college (adult college), then you can do courses that are relevant to the following:

You can go into the following areas with specific professional qualifications (irrespective of what previous qualifications you have):

Personally, I have seen history graduates who went into accounting at one of the Big 4 before working in startups for example. I also know someone who did history before going into the Civil Service, and another working for small businesses local to him.

I don't know what sort of work you would consider fulfilling, since this would depend on the individual. Some say working in charities, environmental agencies, and healthcare fulfilling. However, others would say working in development in third world countries, scientific research, and housing are fulfilling. Without knowing what your values are and what you aim to strive for, I am drawing a blank.

I would presume that you have A Level in History, which makes me wonder what other A Levels you have. If they are not required subjects and you intend to do a different degree in a subject that require specific subjects, then it can be a bit complicated.

If you can add more detail in regards to the above, then I would at least be able to point you in a more specific direction.

I also do A-Level Spanish and English Literature (and enjoy them both thoroughly). In school I also really enjoyed chemistry and maths, although I wasn't great at maths post-covid (so year 9 onwards) and I wouldn't mind a job which focused more in a STEM-ish sector although with History I doubt it. Politics and sociology were also super interesting to me, but I really don't think I'd want to be a politician or something along those lines. I considered something medicine-y for a while like becoming a gynaecologist or a midwife, or something more women's health-ish in general but ultimately decided against this. I also considered anthropology and linguistics for a while, I'm super interested in etymology and people's daily lives and why they lived the way they did, I just chose history as it was the field I was most sure on.

I've been really interested in things like accounting, journalism, marketing, hr and pr, marketing in particular but I have a feeling marketing might become super over-exposed (if that makes sense) in the next few years because it looks to be fun, is fairly flexible and comes with a bunch of cool experiences from what I've heard. I currently have friends wanting to do marketing and struggling to find work and opportunities because it's so competitive. I wouldn't mind computing at all and learning to code.

I do quite like school and getting an education as a whole, like I've always enjoyed being in lessons and doing homework (as nerdy as that sounds), so I wouldn't mind going back to school to get more qualifications if the field needed it, my only concern with that is having the money to do it. I'd also consider myself a pretty passionate person, like I'll speak out if I don't think something is right. I'm super interested in media as a whole, within History propaganda is super interesting to me, although I've not studied it in much depth. My favourite thing to do in my free time is reading, usually a rom-com of some-sort but I also spend my time watching deep-dives into certain women in history like Rosalie Duthe, Jospehine Baker and Lucrezia Borgia and watching BlameItOnJorge. He's a youtuber which focuses on Lost Media, often T.V. and movies, will discuss the media and talks about the journey in which it was found.

I know this is super long but I really wanted to give you more of a look into who I was like you said (although this is overboard I know) and thank you so much for helping me with some of my misconceptions, like you said because it isn't job specific it really confused me on what I could and couldn't go into.