What can i do with a Bachelors in liberal studies?

I wanted to teach math. However I don't think I can pass the cset single subject in math. Also I don't feel like going to school for two more years and taking all these math classes and then taking another year for my credential. What should I do? I already have my BA in liberal studies. I don't want to teach multi subjects either.What can i do with a Bachelors in liberal studies?
One has to ask why you chose that major to begin with. It's not the usual path to a math teaching career. It's well suited for teaching lower grades. Vocationally, that's about it. It's not a vocational qualifier.





The BA/BS in Liberal Studies (I have one too) is an academic degree designed to develop your ability to think, reason, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, etc... In other words, to be a scholar. It's a hugely broad degree with very little practical application on its own. You'll find that it has prepared you to be something that this society detests and won't pay for - an intellectual.





Combined with specific training/experience it can be incredibly valuable because, unlike those with a specific major, you're not confined to one field and are able to join various fields together. You could now pursue any number of technical/vocational certifications and find yourself in a management role with a little experience.





As a prerequisite for graduate or professional study it is excellent - provided your GPA is high. It's well suited for entering any number of master's fields as well as law school.





It does qualify you to apply for all the jobs (very many) that require a degree but don't specify a specific major. These include sales, management, marketing, writing, and the like at the entry-level.





What you are likely to find is that the degree doesn't immediately return on your investment but that by mid-career you begin to pass the subject specialist degree holders as a generalist.





You could always make some business cards and become a consultant. ';Generally knowledgeable guy. Liberal Studies grad. Will think for food.'; 鈽?br>




Reality is that you own a very valuable piece of the human capital pie but you need to get the rest of the pie too. You'll need some experience in something and some industry specific verification of skill (certification) and you'll have a solid resume to work with.





Add: People that don't have one will have all sorts of opinions about what you can do with it. Unless they work in HR, how would they know? It's ';this guy told me...'; - and if they do work in HR then they (statistically) have an undergrad in Liberal Arts or Social Studies. hmmmm Ask people that have one what it's good for.What can i do with a Bachelors in liberal studies?
I had a similar experience in college. I thought becoming an elementary school teacher would be a good path, but sometime midway through my Junior year I changed my mind.





It happened that I got a job in the college library (during senior year). I decided to finish up the degree and figure out my future afterwards. What eventually happened (after working a year and a half in a couple different libraries and substitute teaching) was that I decided to go to library school for a master's.





That was 1989-1990. I'm still happily employed as a librarian and my broad general knowledge and comfort in many subject areas has served me well.





There are lots of other options... Get some advice from your academic counselor, division office or faculty - explore some other career options. Whatever you decide, you've laid some good ground work and the time in college will seem like nothing ten years down the road.





Some sites of interest:


http://www.csuohio.edu/class/liberalstud鈥?/a>


http://www.csuchico.edu/careers/students鈥?/a>
';Liberal studies'; is a joke and a waste of your valuable youth and time.
you can substitute teach!


wow... what do you even have to do to teach math? calc 1, 2 maybe? sheesh...
What can you do with liberal studies? Jack sh*t.





You already spent two years on it you might as well finish it.
First of all don't get down on yourself, you at least are in college and trying your best, which is what many kids aren't even doing right now!





So take a break and realize things will still turn out okay even if you have to graduate with this degree .





And whatever you do, at least GRADUATE with some degree, don't drop out of course. But it WILL be hard to find a job with this major, it is just too generic. (GRAD school as an exception, it works fine for that yes, like the other yahoo user said!)





Maybe you could get into a career that takes people from all majors and trains them onsite, but it will still be difficult. I've sometimes seen in our paper like there was such a demand for social workers that they said you could get the job with almost any college degree as long as you took lots of social science courses like sociologoy and psychology, but for most careers this would be hard to get into them with a liberal arts degree. And unless you want to worry about employment after college, which is WHY you went to college in the first place, or at least probably the main reason you went, then you might need to take another semester to solidify a degree.





But on the opposite side of this argument I've known TONS of adults who graduated with one degree and are in a completely different line of work, so it could still work out just fine. My sister-in-law graduated with a psych. degree and had to sell cars for awhile but now she runs a head hunting company/recruiters. And she would have majored in business if she had known this, instead of psych, but it still worked out.





On a personal note (not to bore you though) I majored in business adm. and in the 80's couldn't find work as a new grad, so anyway to make a long story short, I ended up pregnant and a stay-at-home mom and then because I was at home I could help support my husband by doing daycare and then he went to grad school and became a doctor. And then because earlier in our life, when we were 26 one of my husband's companies he worked at burned down, we had to move to a completely different state, but if we hadn't moved, we wouldn't have adopted our son that was born and left up for adoption in this new state. So I guess what I'm saying is this one thing might be happening for a reason you don't even understand yet. And it might still turn out to be something unexpectedly good!





And even if all you can get is the liberal arts degree, getting most real jobs in the real world comes down to WHO YOU KNOW and how well you do in an interview. The world is still at your feet, as long as you get a college degree.





Talk to you counselors at your univeristy or college and ask for LOTS of advice, you need some help from the advisors who can look at all your classes and come up with a doable plan to get you a real major that you will enjoy. But again, don't give up, take another semsester if you have to, but I wouldn't waste the money on a whole other 3 years of something just to have a certain degree, because to be honest with you, you don't sound that sure anyway what you want to do yet, so those 3 years and thousands of dollars might just add up to you being in the same place in 3 years as you are now, but just in more DEBT.








So spend more time thinking what kind of life and career you want. Who knows after a lot of thinking, you might find you were meant to be a chef, or a photographer, or something that you aren't even taking classes for right now. Everything will be just fine, it might just take a while to find your path in life! Well good luck either way in your future! Sierra