I can't imagine how many times this has been posted on this

I studied English at a top UK University. I really enjoyed it, but it was a tricky finding good paid employment after graduating. It worked out in the long run. I now work in a comms/marketing position in a theatre and love what I do but it's taken a comparatively long time to get there and I'm not particularly well paid.

It's easy to be 17 or 18 and pursue something because you love it (rather than for the money), but when reality hits after graduation, it can be tough.

>>9926070

Are you American? Then don't.

I have a Master's degree in English but I'm Scandinavian. It's been alright, but you definitely have got to not mind teaching because that's pretty much always Plan B.

You won't become a professor.

>>9926220
Where did your peers end up?
>>9926758
Why do you say I won't? I have pretty good communication skills so I could probably network. Also single and don't plan on kids so I have time

>>9926070
No it's not worth it. Everything you need is at the library for free, for the same amount of effort. If you start with Proust, then Homer, then Shakespeare, then Joyce, then Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and Chekhov, you'll be more knowledgeable than any professor on the planet

>>9926070
if you know that you want to be a professor and that you have the ability to do so, then go for it. If you are not sure, then double major with something more practical. if you like arch maybe you could go for civil engineering major/eng min or double major (if you have the drive for it), and then more easily get into MArch programs. BArch is a really intensive full-time major that won't allow you too much time to study literature intensely on the side.

>>9926070

If you are willing to devote the majority of your time for the next 6 years, minimum, and then after that, the majority of your day, to being a professor, then go for it. But you will be teaching at two places, teaching introductory classes for awhile, grading A LOT of stupid papers, etc.

The reality is you're probably not a rockstar, so the reality of college level teaching is that there's a glut of qualified people for the better positions, so you're almost certainly going to be taking positions that aren't so great for quite awhile. That means adjunct teaching, teaching at lesser colleges, especially community colleges, etc.