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Job Satisfaction

General quality of life statement

Let's be honest here. There's not a lot of upside. You're going to make an average salary, so abandon those dreams of golden helicopters, diamond horses, and emerald...we don't know. Hats? The point is, you're probably not going to get them. So who cares?

That doesn't really matter when you're doing something you love, yet less than half (a smidgeon less, but still) of graduates are unsatisfied with their jobs. That's not as bad as some jobs. Kitten-kicker and sewage chef satisfaction hovers around 0%. But still, it's not great.

So why get into art history at all?

You have to really love it. This is not a major for someone who doesn't live, eat, breathe, matriculate, masticate, and perforate art. (Okay, maybe not that last one.) This has to be an all-consuming passion for you, or it's just not worth it. You have to be willing to make sacrifices and network your tuckus off just to be near art. More importantly, you have to be ready for the weary eyerolls when you tell people what your major is.

Hey, at least it's not puppetry.

Majoring in art history all comes down to what you make of it. You'll have to work hard to snag that dream job that truly satisfies you, but you probably knew that. If all this talk did was light a fire under you, go for it.

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