What can an English major honor student do when they graduate?

Question

How can I best exploit my academic achievements (lots of awards and honors, including summa) as an English major?

I don't want to teach or go to grad school.

Who wants me and what for--and what will they give me? Is the answer nobody and nothing, as I suspect? Has all my hard work been for naught considering I really taught myself and paid tuition to be evaluated? I could have been a B student and avoided all the pressure, and I wouldn't have learned any less. Perhaps I would have learned more seeing as I would have had time to work on the school paper and what not.

Do my straight A's mean anything in any pragmatic sense? Or in any sense for that matter?

Answer 1

I know a person who ended up working as an editor for one of the papers. She also applied for several magazines but they require a grad school or school of journalism training.

Most of the time you need to go to grad school.

Another English honors major I know couldn't find a job, so she went ot law school. So, you can see for your self.