As someone who loved history since i was a little boy i was considering pursuing a history related degree when i finally go to college next fall but the thing is i dont know what i could do with it besides being a teacher and working in a museum and those seems rather boring to me, so what kind of things have you guys done with your history degrees besides teaching or working in a museum. thank you.
You could become an archivist, these people keep track of the different materials available in a particular archive. This might sound boring at a glance, but many archives are able to hold original copies of documents that would amaze you. Better yet, as the archivist you get to touch them!
A local archive in my town holds on display an original Audubon book and an original copy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense just to name the more notable examples. Even some of the more specialized stuff is really cool if you have an interest related to that particular field.
Some historians spend less time researching, and more time presenting historical classes, seminars etc. to the general public. This can be fun since you get to decide what topic you want to discuss and everyone that will attend will actually want to be there as opposed to a high school class.
Lastly, you could be a historical consultant. You would give advice to construction crews, local government, etc. about how to work around and preserve historical buildings and locations and integrate them into the modern world.
Something to keep in mind is that one of the greatest advantages of any Bachelor's degree (and to some extent, a Master's as well) is not in the subject matter knowledge you get, but rather in the skill set you learn and the opportunities the university experience brings you. Though we have some fantastic people here who have developed expertise whilst still 'only' being undergraduates (and some who have no degree whatsoever, or have long left academia!), most undergrads don't leave a History programme as an expert in a particular field or with an intention to pursue a career in history; those that do probably found and then pursued a specific interest in their course choices and research papers. As it happens, I went into History as a discipline precisely because it was a good degree for a professional job - I didn't even decide for definite that I wanted to go into academia until I started on my final year thesis!
The essential benefit to training as a historian is the skill set it gives you. Doing history well means that you have to master a range of skills that can be applied to a wide range of professional and semi-professional fields. In particular, you will learn how to critically engage with large bodies of material - how to identify useful sources, how to read work with a critical eye, how to synthesise information from a wide range of sources together, how to construct an original argument and so on. You will learn how to form your own ideas through original research and how to put them forward in a rigorous, concise, convincing fashion. History courses tend to also involve a large amount of self-directed work and independent research (though this varies from school to school); both valuable skills to have. Doing well in a History degree ultimately requires some measure of self-discipline (whether that's strong time management and organisation, or the ability to work in chaotic environments and deliver to tight deadlines, depending on your personal life choices!).
University in general also offers you a whole range of opportunities for making yourself stand out in the job market. Employers understand recent graduates might not have great (or any at all) actual paid work experience, but they do look favourably on voluntary experience as well - and universities offer a unique range of voluntary experience it's hard to get anywhere else. If you throw yourself into university life and get involved, you'll do well.
Because of History's respected and significant skill-set, you will find people in every professional field you can think of with a degree. Taking a look through my Linkedin, here are some of the fields some of my BA coursemates have gone into:
There are definitely options other than teaching, museums or archives; it's as much about how you apply yourself at university and how you frame your skills as it is about your degree itself. And of course, there's always the path into academia, which usually entails a minimum of four years further study, often more. You can also enhance your academic qualifications further by taking a Master's degree after your BA, which can be interdisciplinary; you might decide, for instance, you want to pursue a career in political work and study for a more politically-focused MA (my own BA is in History, but my MA is in History and Politics). Fair warning though, taking an MA can also backfire in the wider job market - especially if you have not much else on your CV.
It is also important that you do a degree you think you're going to enjoy, I'd say. This is 3 - 4 years of your life, after-all; don't take something you're going to hate just because it looks good on a CV. Certainly don't neglect your employability altogether in the interests of having a good time either, but if History is what you really love, it's also probably what you're going to do best at - which in turn means you'll develop better skills.
And incidentally, History degrees seem to serve politicians quite well, too. George Bush had a BA in History from Yale; Carly Fiorina studied medieval history at Stanford. Gordon Brown (the UK's PM from 2007 - 2010) has a PhD in Political History - 69 of the members elected to the British House of Commons in 2010 had a History BA. So clearly, there's more to a History degree than just teaching!
You might also find this old thread useful.