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I'm going to try to answer from a different perspective.


You can get a journalism degree and do a few things besides journalism.


My sister earned a journalism degree from a four-year school and pretty seamlessly went into teaching high school. She never really taught journalism, but English and writing. Later, she became a librarian.


Also--and this is out of my or my family's experience--I think there are quite a few public relations and/or social media jobs out there. I'm betting that a journalism degree, while not a marketing degree, would be looked at pretty favorably by employers looking to fill these types of jobs *if* you can show the goods as far as social media and/or top-notch writing samples.


I guess I would say that if it's a matter of finding something to get you motivated to carry on and get that degree, by all means, go for that journalism diploma and I don't think it will hold you back too much if you wind up wanting to do something different career-wise.

[needle]

I'm going to try to answer from a different perspective.


You can get a journalism degree and do a few things besides journalism.


My sister earned a journalism degree from a four-year school and pretty seamlessly went into teaching high school. She never really taught journalism, but English and writing. Later, she became a librarian.


Also--and this is out of my or my family's experience--I think there are quite a few public relations and/or social media jobs out there. I'm betting that a journalism degree, while not a marketing degree, would be looked at pretty favorably by employers looking to fill these types of jobs *if* you can show the goods as far as social media and/or top-notch writing samples.


I guess I would say that if it's a matter of finding something to get you motivated to carry on and get that degree, by all means, go for that journalism diploma and I don't think it will hold you back too much if you wind up wanting to do something different career-wise.