This is probably going to sound crazy to most of you but I need some advice. (It also might not really apply to r/history and r/askhistorians.) I’ll just lay it all out there I love history, geography and different cultures. I don’t want to live in the United States I would rather live in Europe. (Ideally Austria, Germany, Switzerland, or a Scandinavian country.) And that’s what I’m looking for in a career. I was thinking about teaching at an international school through a program like ISS. How difficult would it be to get a history/social studies position? I understand that I may have to work up to a position like that. Is TESL a safer route? Are there any other viable careers in Europe that I could strive towards dealing with my interests? I love the idea of working in a museum as well but that seems so out of reach these days especially if I’m not a native to the country. Human Geography is also very interesting to me but I don’t really like GIS is there anything else in that field? I’m currently a freshman in college, I’m not fluent in German but I am currently learning. I’m not a genius I had a 3.7 gpa in high school but I only took two ap classes. If there is a better place to post this please let me know. If there is anything else I can think of I’ll add it at the bottom thank you for any advice.
Some of the best, most successful people I know in the bartending and beverage alcohol industry were history majors. Not a back handed statement, just a bit of a coincidence.
Save for academia or perhaps writing, very few 'careers' (whatever that means anymore) will give preference to a candidate with history degrees over any other at least tangentially-related liberal arts degree.
I'd imagine what jobs there are for professional historians are few and highly competitive.
Just get your degree and work in whatever field interests you. You can always go back to school if you need to.
If you want to travel, work for an airline.
If you like Germany, there are almost unlimited ways an American with a degree can get a job and make at least enough to scrape by.
You'll want to start getting it out of your head that what you studied for your undergrad degree has any meaningful relevance to your future. Plenty of history majors go to med school and/ or get any of the other professional level degrees available. Do what you love.