Why do you study History?

[Tank_Guy#3]

It's enjoyable, hold my interest, and I somehow manage to retain the information very well.

 

[Masada]

History books are cheap. Economics books aren't. I therefore tend to buy more of the former than the latter. I'm an economically rational actor

 

[Smellincoffee]

At first, because it was entertaining; then, because it made me feel connected to the rest of humanity as a whole, by realizing how alike people are.

Today it's mostly the connected thing, but I also study it because it illuminates the present.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Historian's a good job, mate. Challenging work, Indoors, and I guarantee you'll never go hungry, because as long as there's two people left in this world, someone is going to want someone to remember them when they're dead.

 

[Communisto]

Historian's a good job, mate. Challenging work, Indoors, and I guarantee you'll never go hungry, because as long as there's two people left in this world, someone is going to want someone to remember them when they're dead.

I always hear that a history degree is the most useless thing one could do with a post-secondary education (which, of course, is why I'm doing just that). Isn't historian something youd have to be genuinely and extraordinarily talented at to turn into a viable career, like a musician?

 

[Dachs]

Historian's a good job, mate. Challenging work, Indoors, and I guarantee you'll never go hungry, because as long as there's two people left in this world, someone is going to want someone to remember them when they're dead.

I'll be honest with you. My parents do not care for it.

 

[aukrest]

Because it's truly interesting to learn what has happened before me and how this has shaped our modern lives and how it will shape other lives in the future.

Also because it's fun to know a bunch of stuff that so many people are completely ignorant or have no clue about.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

^^That too. I like firing off some knowledge obtained by higher education at customers when I'm working. It's my way of reminding them that I'm still smarter despite having to wear an apron and a name tag.

 

[Lord Baal]

Historian's a good job, mate. Challenging work, Indoors, and I guarantee you'll never go hungry, because as long as there's two people left in this world, someone is going to want someone to remember them when they're dead.

Take it from someone with a history degree: there is surprisingly little work in this field. Depressingly so.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Take it from someone with a history degree: there is surprisingly little work in this field. Depressingly so.

Indeed. Definitely not using my degree right now; someone with a high school diploma could do my job.

 

[Masada]

I tell myself that's why I got an economics degree first. (I'm probably lying just to make myself feel better).

 

[Lord Baal]

Indeed. Definitely not using my degree right now; someone with a high school diploma could do my job.

I got a new job today: telemarketing. I'll make great use of my history degree there, no doubt.

 

[Tee Kay]

I got a new job today: telemarketing. I'll make great use of my history degree there, no doubt.

If I know it's you calling I won't hang up.

 

[Lord Baal]

If I know it's you calling I won't hang up.

I'll be raising money for kiddies with cancer. So pay up everyone! For my commissions the children!

 

[LightSpectra]

Hah, suckers. Should've picked a real major, like theological ethics.

...

[/eclectic bitterness]

 

[ParkCungHee]

Take it from someone with a history degree: there is surprisingly little work in this field. Depressingly so.

I didn't say anything about if you don't have the job.
Besides, I've found some work and I don't even have my undergraduate.

 

[ParkCungHee]

I'll be honest with you. My parents do not care for it.

I'm not a librarian dad I'm an archivist.

 

[Traitorfish]

I'm not a librarian dad I'm an archivist.

The difference being that one's a job and the other's a mental sickness?

 

[carmen510]

A fascination with historical events, and how our historical experiences can be applied to today's world.

Also, I plan to go into a job that requires knowledge of international affairs, such as diplomacy or one related to economics.

 

[Tee Kay]

I used to fantasise about being a diplomat, then someone explained to me what the job actually entails.

These days I fantasise about writing crappy popular history books.