I received a Bachelor's degree in history from the University of Western Ontario in 2012. While my focus in undergrad was Canadian and British military history in the 19th and 20th centuries, I didn't really take any classes wholly dedicated to it until fourth year. Before that I took a range of survey courses and would just write essays on subjects relevant to military history.

After that I went to teacher's college at Nipissing University and am now a part-time high school teacher while also working for my local heritage organisation as an archivist and heritage co-ordinator. Basically doing lots of digitising and social media work to promote local history and build public interest in our collection and projects.

Sometime in the future I may start doing a Master's on a part-time basis as it's almost a requirement work in the history/heritage field.

I studied at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. I studied History and Philosophy as an undergrad. In my third and fourth years undergrad I took advanced courses on the Crusades, Edward I's Scottish Wars and Popular Culture in America 1939-89. I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on the development of Plate Armour in Medieval Europe.

I am currently in the final stages (~15 months left) of my Ph.D. on Bows and Crossbows in the Later Middle Ages at the same university.

BS from the business school at University of Colorado in Boulder, with an area of emphasis in Small Business Entrepreneurship and enough credits for a minor in Eastern European History.

These days I manage enterprise-wide software implementations for large multinational corporations. I spent several years as an expat in SE Asia, and on the side I still do cross-cultural training for international assignees.

I can say with a straight face that despite the fact that I work deep in the dark, dark heart of the business world, reading history contributed far more to whatever 'successes' I've had than anything I got from business school.

Honestly, the lessons learned while rebuilding lawnmower engines in my Dad's garage still have more resonance in my contemporary daily corporate existence than any of my b-school classes, but you asked whether or not you should study history....

My advice would be YES, study history. Even if you don't end up using it professionally, you'll still likely find it terribly useful. Other people will disagree, possibly vehemently, but I think the love of reading and for disentangling conflicting reports, the ability to write persuasively, the realization that history and truth and myth are oddly commingled in most people's minds, and the compulsive need to gain a broader perspective are all healthy virtues that might land you a fine career in academia - but they might also prepare you for other work, possibly more effectively than the 'vocational' training typically associated with those jobs.

Also, that guy who's studying bows and crossbows probably has a much more interesting afternoon of reading than my stack of tax policies....

Just completed my BA in history, minor in political science, in December 2013 from Vancouver Island University. Heading to Carleton University in September to start a MA program in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.

I am also currently just a month away from completing a four month program teaching English in a village in Georgia. Ideally, I'd like to get my MA and get a job with the Canadian foreign affairs ministry, UN, or some other international-based organisation; though my time here has also given me other ideas, perhaps more focused on the region and development here. That or, less likely, pursue a PhD and see what happens there.

Philosophy, focus on contemporary continental and philosophy of language. Now work as a software engineer in data science, cause i had children after finishing undergrad and couldn't afford grad school (had wanted to do a linguistics masters).

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