Hello. I just answered a similar question a few weeks ago asking what jobs are available to historians and I decided to talk from personal experience. I'll pull from this a bit for my answer here.

I have a BA in History (no speciality or concentration) and also a Master's in Historical studies (concentration in the American Revolution and Public history. Specifically, my thesis examine religion during the American Revolution).

Professionally, I am a historian who is also a public librarian. I'm a public historian because I run the local history center at my branch. I am a public librarian who runs the history center at my branch. At my branch I am responsible for our historical displays, signs, and also run an archive that we have which houses tens of thousands of historical photographs and documents. I help customers with research into genealogy, some are doing research for other projects like books, and we even had one this fall who was making a documentary on desegregation in Baltimore and needed some of our documents. I am also a consulting historian at the state archives for an ongoing project involving Maryland Soldiers during the American Revolution.

To answer your other questions, I do use my degree regularly, especially the public history side. I hope to use this job as a possible jumping off point for other jobs in the future that are a little closer to my favorite areas of history, but for now, I have a great job, with very decent pay, amazing benefits, and I still get to be a historian. I can't complain.

Please let me know what follow ups you have.

I teach high school History.

I work at an archive. It’s great being surrounded by historical documents.

I got an MA in history. Now I operate a freelance editing business, though I continue to research and publish in my field of history when time and motivation permit.