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I've sat down and had a chat with my parents and it's looking most likely that ill be doing English lit, history and politics for alevels. Does anyone know any good, interesting career pathways that I could take away from these?

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Ggg647272828

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by flowacos

I've sat down and had a chat with my parents and it's looking most likely that ill be doing English lit, history and politics for alevels. Does anyone know any good, interesting career pathways that I could take away from these?

Law, politics could go into civil service with the government or international relations, Journalism if you like writing

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Stiffy Byng

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by flowacos

I've sat down and had a chat with my parents and it's looking most likely that ill be doing English lit, history and politics for alevels. Does anyone know any good, interesting career pathways that I could take away from these?

Any career that does not require STEM training.

A sample of English graduates whom I know from university -

One publisher
Two lawyers
Two academics
Two actors
Two film and TV directors
One journalist
One billionaire's wife
One social worker
One owner of an educational company
One published novelist
One published poet and editor of poetry
One stand up comedian and comedy writer
One senior civil servant
One political pollster and TV and radio pundit

Amongst the History graduates whom I know: several lawyers and civil servants, a few academics, a financial services regulator, a forex trader, a publisher, a spy, two human resources directors, two school teachers, and so on. Politics grads would be similar.

As for STEM, by the way, James Burke, the greatest living historian of science, the man who covered the Moon landings for the BBC, read English at Oxford.

https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html

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Welcome99

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by flowacos

I've sat down and had a chat with my parents and it's looking most likely that ill be doing English lit, history and politics for alevels. Does anyone know any good, interesting career pathways that I could take away from these?

Teaching, Law, Government, Librarianship, Human Resource management / Marketing

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