Does a Bachelor of Arts (History) lead anywhere? (1 Viewer)

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if u do a double in history/education u might be able to get a more specialised teaching job- better chance of a rich private school letting u only teach history and u can do side quests/research on the side- and that ways there also a more fulfilling aspect of it bc you're actually helping people and not just analysing the past for your entire life
 

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if u do a double in history/education u might be able to get a more specialised teaching job- better chance of a rich private school letting u only teach history and u can do side quests/research on the side
its such a shame because i GUESS i could do teaching but like... do u rlly want to be a teacher in this day and age
 

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if u do a double in history/education u might be able to get a more specialised teaching job- better chance of a rich private school letting u only teach history and u can do side quests/research on the side- and that ways there also a more fulfilling aspect of it bc you're actually helping people and not just analysing the past for your entire life
i like ur optimism tho maybe i can do a history degree
 

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its such a shame because i GUESS i could do teaching but like... do u rlly want to be a teacher in this day and age
imagine how much time u would have to actually do your own research though- teachers get crazy holidays, cheap degree and we have a teacher shortage rn so good pay- if u have a good uni chances are you can make some good connections and get involved with cool projects on the side- maybe even stuff overseas and travel- teaching is a pretty stable job asw while history is a bit scattered unless u do boring conservation shit
 

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better chance of a rich private school letting u only teach history
i heard extremely rich schools like kings and abbotsleigh tend to pay their teacher (who have a phd) $200k+
thats what my yr 10 commerce teacher said - not sure on the reliability of her words tho

imagine how much time u would have to actually do your own research though- teachers get crazy holidays, cheap degree and we have a teacher shortage rn so good pay- if u have a good uni chances are you can make some good connections and get involved with cool projects on the side- maybe even stuff overseas and travel- teaching is a pretty stable job asw while history is a bit scattered unless u do boring conservation shit
ISTG THATS LOTERALLY WHAT I TELL EVERYONE N THEY ALL SAY ‘No, thats so stupid’
the only stupid ppl here r them, like hello?
- 3 month of break + travel and sick leave whenever
- pay is alright (even public teachers get paid $90k - depends on yrs of teaching but thats average)
- a lot of job opportunities, dont like ur current school u can immediately change unlike in some professions where u’ll have to beg to get a job to begin w
- bonus: if u teach at a shit school where no one wants to learn u dont even HAVE to teach and u’ll still get paid lmao (at my old school we were lucky if we had a teacher who would even get off their phones)

also unrelated but a head teacher and a deputy at my school were both lawyers before and they switched to teaching bc they used to get paid so low
 

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its tough im just not sure that i could handle working with kids
espec teenagers 😭
Screw teaching then, go to a shit school where no one wants to learn and sit on ur phone but give some worksheets as evidence (thats what all my teachers at my old school did and they still got paid + they cant get fired bc ‘they’re doing something’)
 

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its tough im just not sure that i could handle working with kids
espec teenagers 😭
js slam the table or smthing when they get noisy
don't break the computer out of anger
(HSIE teacher observations)
if you want the class to shut up make all the work bookwork and throw everyone in arranged seats that's how my history/geography class is, some students still talk but not as much
sometimes we still get to work with ppl we want to asw
effective management system (teacher POV only*)
 

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oh yh one yr my english sub that was a HSIE/eco teacher broke the monitor in one of his HSIE classes
idk what happened to him after
 

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Besides if they themselves dont care about their own future why would you? A teacher is not there to care about a student‘s future but to guide them through it, if there is no future there is no point in you guiding

i just reckon, at the end of the day, if u‘re rlly considering this degree just be ready to also consider teaching
 

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but you might still have to teach geo, not 100% sure how they organise it in private but year 7-10 have to do both geo and history anyway (idk how it works, especially at non-gov, but is something you might want to consider)
 

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but you might still have to teach geo, not 100% sure how they organise it in private but year 7-10 have to do both geo and history anyway (idk how it works, especially at non-gov, but is something you might want to consider)
in a catholic school u might have to teach 7-10 religion too 💀
 

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but you might still have to teach geo, not 100% sure how they organise it in private but year 7-10 have to do both geo and history anyway (idk how it works, especially at non-gov, but is something you might want to consider)
thats because these broke ass public schools want the same 3 teachers to teach a whole grade of 8 subjects. thats why I'm saying get ins at a private school that has entire professors for each subject
 

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