r/englishmajors

My main interests are teaching and becoming a lawyer. The downside for teaching is pay, and for law, I’m worried about having nothing to fall back on if I decide I don’t want to go through with it, as you can get your bachelor’s degree in anything. Also the debt and burn out.

I’m thinking about majoring in English and minoring in education or maybe business? I’m not totally set.

The more people I ask for advice on this, the more I get told I’m setting myself up for failure. It’s frustrating to hear, but I know where they’re coming from.

They also tell me since I have the brain for stem, I should go through with that. That I should just suck it up and take the hard classes, or I’ll just be struggling after graduation. It’s just frustrating. I was planning to go into health, took some classes and I did well, but I disliked taking them and they didn’t feel like me. So, now I feel totally lost.

I’ve ruled out almost everything except the humanities, and everybody keeps telling me I’m screwing myself over. And I know where they’re coming from, and that’s what scares me. They also tell me things like im “wasting my potential” if I went through with this, which is so shitty.

I’m not saying I want to be filthy rich, but I do want to be able to support myself and live comfortably. Maybe I’m asking for too much. Idk lol.

I want to know what are jobs you guys have gotten with your English degrees, and if you regret majoring in English. Please do not be scared to give me a wake up call.

I’ve been learning about translation, and I’ve noticed that idioms can be one of the hardest things to translate because their meaning is often different from the literal words.
For example, “It’s raining cats and dogs” means that it’s raining heavily. A literal translation wouldn’t make much sense in many languages.
So, what do you think is the best way to translate idioms when there is no direct equivalent? Would you keep the original meaning, or try to find a similar expression in your language?
I’d love to hear your opinions and examples from different languages!

I’m a senior but math is my last pre req that I’ve been putting off, and as a slightly older student (25) I haven’t done any serious math or needed to in years. It’s the only subject I have anxiety about because my high-school treated students who weren’t natural at it as stupid, and my dad still gives me grief about it despite being a grown adult that’s done well in school otherwise.

Thankfully my school is more progressive and has a good tutoring center that I’ll start in advance, but what sucks is that if I can’t get into finance 101 I’ll be forced to take a stretch class which will postpone graduation plans:( Any tips other then extra tutoring? How did this go for you?

I’m a 23 M who’s a year into post grad and I’m considering getting an MFA in CW. I wanna know what I can with it besides becoming a professor. My ultimate goal is to become a full time novelist.