So I’m a college junior history major, and I’ve recently come to an epiphany: I adore history and have always been a history buff, but what the fuck am I gonna do with a history degree?Getting at PHd and hoping to be a professor is basically just high stakes gambling with how the job market is, I don’t wanna do K-12 and get bullied by hormonal trainwrecks for breadcrumbs, as cool as being a historian or archivist would be, it’s unlikely, I wouldn’t be happy as a lawyer, and besides that, all there would be are dead end office jobs that I’d rather KMS than subject myself to.

 So I’ve been thinking of doing a trade apprenticeship because I’ll make more money that way, I like manual work a lot more than desk work, the thought of fixing stuff for people and helping them makes me a lot happier than the thought of dragging stuff around a computer for some evil megacorporation and getting replaced with AI a year later, it seems more flexible than an office job if it’s union depending on the trade, and yeah….I’m still figuring out which one I wanna do and still figuring out if I want to do this, especially as someone who is the polar opposite of who you’d expect to go blue collar

but the point is: if I actually decide to go this route, I’m wondering if I should still go for my bachelors just in case because it might me good to have if trades don’t work out or I do some bullshit job on the side, finish out after the end of this year, or just drop out after this semester?

If this is the wrong place to post something like this btw, let me know, I was gonna also post it to r/skilledtrades but they don’t let you post stuff related to asking questions about getting into trades outside of the comments of this one post.