what do you do with a BA in English?

Now that I am officially a college graduate, I am living at home (like any good post-collegiate person does in the 2000s) and am trying to get a job.

Though I might be a leading expert in my field, this is a slow-moving process. It turns out I have very few marketable skills beyond comparative literary studies, translating Beowulf from Old English to Modern English, and telling you the underlying structures of language. Unsurprisingly, our modern workforce does not really need to these abilities. (Do you need someone with these qualifications? I'M YOUR GIRL. give me a holler.)

Luckily, I live equidistant from two major cities, and I have been stalking jobs for both of them on craiglist.com in addition to driving around, submitting applications to places which would be entertaining to work at.

So far I'm not exceptionally worried. I have a tendency to have interesting summers entirely by accident; something will fall into place.