What some career option for anthropology students?

Question

Graduating with an anthropology, archeology, and linguistics majors/minors what are some career options?

What are some suggestion?

Answer 1

I have a degree in archaeolgy, and I work in Cultural Resources Management.  This is government terms for archaeology work.  We are contracted by companies who want to use state or federal funds to pay for projects, but who need an archaeology survey done to make sure of any possible impact.  Pipelines, highways, plants, and many militarty bases; all of these need this kind of work done, and we get paid to go play in the dirt.  It's not easy work, in that it is physical labor digging with a shovel, and trowel, but it is fun work.  Archaeologists tend to be very well educated, well rounded, fun folks, who are very open to most things.  It pays decently($10-$13/hr starting) - mind you it's not a HIGH paying job, but it's decent.  We usually get our hotels and food paid for (called Per Diem - averages $30 / day over and above your standard wages-nontaxed)- so what happens is that what you earn on your paycheck goes for bills and whatever other fun things you want to do.  You are on the road as long as you want to work, and you can work all over the country.  To get a good look at job openings in Archaeology and CRM, go to www.shovelbums.org and take a look, and make sure to sign up for the email updates - he will send you mail that shows new jobs as they are announced.  They usually come up at least a couple per week.  Many of the folks I work with have an Anthropology Degree, with or without an archaeology minor.  If you haven't already, go ahead and take a field school if your school didn't offer any kind of field experience courses.  Even if you haven't had a field school, get your resume together, and make sure to put down ANY archaeology/ anthropology experience you have, and start sending it out to companies.  Mind you right now is winter, and jobs are kinda few and far between as it is hard to dig in frozen ground.  If you are up for some really dirty fun, give it a shot.  Good luck.

Answer 2

You can work at a business firm in human resources and use your knowledge of people to better understand your clients interest, your workers interest, and help improve people-business relations.

Answer 3

what do you think of Neuro Linguistic Programming for the linguistic part of your career??

Answer 4

I did anth undergrad

then masters in international and community development.

Now i am a project co-ord in a remote part of the world working with it's indigenous peoples.

Answer 5

Burger King

Answer 6

Well, as a grad of the subject myself, there are some things I can tell you.  If you really want to stay completely in the field of Anthro, then you might as well start applying for grad school.  

Getting higher education and doing field work will ensure you stay in your area.  

As for other everyday jobs, anthropologists can try and catch on at a museum (good luck).  Archaeologists can sometimes find work with constructions companies, doing test digs to make sure there are no human artifacts at new sites.

Linguistics majors can go on and do work with speech pathology with some more education.

For the most part, Anthro is a research degree, and to really stay in field, you will have to do research.

Now, if you want to slide a little bit, you can do what I did, and turn your Anthro degree into a platform for an education degree and become a teacher.  It's a decision I am sure glad I made, or my Anthro degree would just be collecting dust while I do some job that just require ANY degree.

My advice, choose what you want to do, then get education to do that, instead of getting educated in something interesting and then trying to figure it out from there.