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I'm in my sophomore year. I'm so scared about getting my undergraduate degree and being unable to find a job, like I'm sure most people in college are, but I was hoping I could take up a minor that may help me get hired. Do you historians have any suggestions?
Getting a foreign language minor (for me it was Spanish) was very helpful, as it both allowed me to read more primary sources in Spanish for my history major and has been a great marketable skill post-graduation. Many employers look for a second language, so if you can find one that is a current widely-spoken language and also overlaps with your area of interest in history, you’ll be set!
Depends on what you want to do?
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Adding a computer science minor to anything humanistic immediately gives you a lot of "interesting" hireability right out of undergraduate (it gives you some useful toolsets, but also makes it plausible for you to say that you're someone who can bridge the gaps between technical and humanistic/social systems).
In general I encourage most of my students to do this, for what it is worth — I'm sort of a believer that it doesn't hurt anybody to know a bit of coding and computer theory. (But I think this, no doubt, because I was a coder who became a historian and it worked out very well for me, so take that as confirmation bias if you want.)
Don't do CS with the idea that you're going to be a full-time coder (if you haven't already gravitated in that direction, you probably don't want to do that), but that you want enough familiarity to be able to automate certain tasks, and to be able to talk to the more hardcore programmers and understand what they are saying.