What the fuck do I do with a classics degree?

I'm at Massey University, New Zealand
Some just work as a wage slave in some 9 to 5?

Shit lol, didn't know classics was a degree outside of the UK. No clue about NZ universities.

For what it's worth I know plenty of people who graduated with strong classics degrees from high ranking UK unis and went on to have successful careers, they just went for typical grad jobs.

>typical grad jobs.
like what?

My boss has a degree in architecture. We do IT. Degrees do not define careers.

History degrees basically are for being a teacher of history or if you have luck to work in a museum or something like that.

Do you have any idea of what you want to do?

I don't understand. How do you get a job in such a different field?

Not him, but IT is the field owned by autodidacts. It's not a rare occasion where those who graduated Comp. Sci. turn out to be completely trash. We've got a Senior Developer who had B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry, and another bunch of freaks.
Also autism tremendously helps.

What do you even say at the interview? "I know I'm not qualified but I work hard"?

A gynecologist for super models

You don't have to answer such questions.
Instead, you get the technical tasks, usually it's not a single interview (here we have 2-3), which last an hour or sometimes more. Three rounds is enough to weed out those who even graduated in CS.
Nobody gives a fuck what degree you have. Although you won't even get invited if you have none.

So I could just do anything?

Give private lessons to people trying to pass classic degree exams.

>Some just work as a wage slave in some 9 to 5?
Sure some do, but with a clear idea of what you want, you can avoid that, I'm sure.

But if you're totally stuck, I always recommend people do a year or two in sales. It's great to learn it since it's a universal skill, doesn't require much in the way of education, pay can be really high at the upper levels, and every company has a sales department.

If you don't like it, you'll at least have some experience and it'll give you an idea about what you'd like to do better.

Or you can break it down by activities. Would you want indoor or outdoor? Flexible hours or fixed? Are you ok with nights/weekends? Physical, mental, or a mix of both? How important is starting pay to you vs. salary growth potential? Also, ask around as to where everyone you know works. Most are very happy to share their pros and cons of their career with you. Ask these kinds of questions and lead yourself.

The truth is you will have to reinvent yourself in order to succeed. And quite likely, this will not be the last time either. Fields of work dry up or become unsuitable surprisingly often, so get used to keeping an eye out for new things and don't be afraid to change and grow.

What do you mean by "anything"? If you don't know shit, you'll never even get to the second interview. You'll receive "we'll call you later" and then you never hear the answer.
As I said, IT is owned by autodidacts. There's a variety of books and resources in the Internet, multiplied by your own curiosity.

I don't know how to help you, op, but maybe someone can advise me
>22
>started college years ago
>dropped out and did a bunch of random shit for 3-ish years
>mom convinces me to go back to school
>I'm not interested in getting a pragmatic degree (I.e. STEM)
I'm a little over 2 years through. Thinking I'll get my bachelor's in Philosophy. After that, I'd like to give architecture another swing. It's what I went for way back when, but I just wasn't ready for all the bullshit.
Any dual major suggestions? I'd really like to get into ecological science or something, but I don't know how long that would add to my time in college

So do my degree and learn something different in spare time?

Have you graduated? How much time left?
It's only applicable for IT. Law, Medicine (or Bio/Chem), Engineering, etc -- they do require college. I'd even say that M.Sc. will get you far ahead if you're willing to tear your ass apart.
I don't know what country you're living in, but is it possible to get a second degree? Could you receive it for free?

I've got 1 1/2 years left
>Second degree for free
What country do you live in where that's possible?

This. Most important is that you like what you're doing.
Example: I've met people in journalism and marketing who had degrees in philosophy.

I have an M.Sc. and it really didn't help me. Unless you have at least a few years of experience, never get a second degree. And never fall down the MBA rabbit hole, 99% of them are just a scam.

I meant to drop out and get the another degree for free. I'm Slavic trash.
Well, you have two opinions. Either to drop out or finish the degree. It's the question what you are going to do after that.
I didn't explain it further, yet I fully agree with you.

I hope you are not going into debt for this. You really shouldn't take on higher education without a plan.

I myself did something similar and studied history and political science because it interests me. I graduated three years ago and I am doing the ESL abroad thing. I have traveled a ton since and through that and self learning, I learned a few languages. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future, maybe something that involves using other languages.

Maybe I can be a translator or interpreter. I might get into technical writing too. I might end up going back and starting out teaching in public school but I would like to teach at a multilingual private school. Regardless now I am in Taiwan saving most of my income and teaching a little online too. The obvious thing for you is to teach. Specifically with classics, you could teach Latin or ancient Greek (if you specialized in that) or history etc (private schools especially catholic schools usually have Latin teachers). That or go into academia. I decided not to since there is no money in that in the US.

>You really shouldn't take on higher education without a plan.
>I myself did something similar and studied history and political science because it interests me.

This is basically me. In my case I studied Sociology that is even a bigger meme degree than History or even Political Science. At least people know what History is. And Sociology is a mix of Political Science and other things so maybe even Political Science is better known by people. I think that there are few degrees that are bigger memes than Sociology. Maybe only Gender Studies could be a bigger meme than Sociology. I would say that even Anthropology has more prestige than Sociology.

And two things that I also learned like you is that:

1) You shouldn't go to college without a plan of where are you going to search jobs when you finish. If you have a family connection even better.
2) You shouldn't study what you like or you are interested in, you should study what could give you the best job. If you like learning about history or politics you can do that in your free time and you won't lose your time, energy and money. College degrees are a tool to get jobs, nothing more.