With your combination of sociological training and natural insightfulness and your sense of humor, I'll bet that you could be a weekly columnist in almost any publication.

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"I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased- short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed." (Max Beerbohm)

I have a BA in Political Science, with the credits for a minor in History but I didn't fill out the paperwork. I have been a keyboard jockey since '94. Started doing tech support for a computer manufacturer, but now do software deployments for a large corporation. I've been trying to decide whether to stay technical or to go back to management (I supervised a crew of techs at my old job) and maybe get an MBA. I'm looking for the security factor right now, because with 1 little one and another on the way, I'd like to worry about how I parent them, not how I'm going to feed them.

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Catz: "And, the ever-sage Volvo Driver:"

Amen on security. If my fiancee had a secure job lined up, I'd consider trying my hand at freelance writing or something like that- or just going straight to grad school. But with neither of us having secure work... yikes! Can't even think about kids or even cats.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

I'm a part-time ESL teacher and a full-time house husband. I recently passed the exam to be a school teacher and am waiting for a reply from the state to begin looking for a job as a HS teacher next September.

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WARNING: In the unlikely event of an accidental agreement with any or all points made in the above post, contact a clinical psychologist immediately.

The views expressed in the above post are not necessarily those of Joker and/or any of his affiliates.

"You have found the secret message. Do you have too much time on your hands? ...Let it go."

The best jobs often come by way of who you know, not what you know. The guy my husband just hired (though prior military) never gave much thought about working in the defense industry. He had no idea that he had anything to offer them. Through a mutual friend, my husband got his resume and gave him a telephone interview. They discovered that his computer skills dovetailed nicely with the kind of geek my husband was looking for. Voila! The guy gets a 15K a year raise and huge potential.

My point, Java is don't put limits your options. Don't fret too much about your first job. Your last job is what counts the most.

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Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question... skip it.

Very true...I've seen WAY too many positions filled by substandard candidates for this very reason.

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Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly, Man got to sit and wonder 'Why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land, Man got to tell himself he understand.
~Bokonon

Yeah, once your foot is in the door a lot more options open up.

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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

although I don't work for a bank, that is essentially what I do, commercial lending. I manage 9 sales people along with a credit analyst, documentation specialist and a personal assistant. Most of our customers are large companies in New England and sprinkled around elsewhere. I'd like to do something else, but it is hard to leave the security I have and I work for a well respected company. I plan to open my own business in the next two or so years, but am trying to discover exactly what that is going to be!

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All you need to know about the energy crisis:
ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

I'm currently a undergraduate student working on my Political Science and Philosophy majors. I plan on going to law school to learn international law, but I may be getting ahead of myself and have no idea how to pay for it.

Plus, I'm looking for a good summer internship in the Boston area, but I'm not too good at looking for such jobs.

Couldn't agree more. Unless you're in a profession that requires a great deal of background knowledge, your undergraduate degree isn't as important as most make it out to be. Most jobs are so specialized that the work you do has little to do with the vast majority of what you learned in college to begin with. Most people end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their college major.

What's most important is getting your foot in the door. I got hired as a temp at a very low level manufacturing job out of college just to "get by" until I landed my "real job" and within 2 weeks had been promoted to the quality dept as a full time employee and a year later was doing process engineering. My mom had a degree in elementary education, started at the phone company as an operator and found herself in a programming position 10 years later.

Being young, you have tons of options, it can be hard to get your foot in the door at first, but if you're smart and a hard worker, any good company will be glad to have you.

If you feel passionately about pursuing your liberal arts focus (psychology? philosphy? history?) -- then yes, you simply aren't qualified to get a job in these areas without an advanced degree, and if you do, it will pay low and have a very low ceiling.