THINKING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE

The average American currently has 4-5 different careers during his or her lifetime. That's careers, not jobs: today, people frequently move from one career into another over the course of their working lives. Planning your career path is thus a life-long exercise. You are unlikely to spend the next forty or fifty years doing whatever you start off with, so your mission at UMW is simply to find a first career that's good for you.

To choose a career path, you need to get to know the available options, but also to know yourself. Fortunately, the English major is good preparation for both.

To get started, you might want to look at some of the following:

Click here for Career Service's page on careers for English majors.

Click here for information about MyPlan, a career assessment tool you can do from your own computer, and a great way to start thinking about what you want to do in the future.

Click here for a comprehensive list of the job titles of former UMW English majors. Not surprisingly, this is a huge and impressive list. Browsing it will give you ideas and introduce you to some career paths that might never have occurred to you.