{"id":25748,"date":"2020-05-13T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=25748"},"modified":"2020-05-13T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T18:14:21","slug":"a-stable-job-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=25748","title":{"rendered":"a stable job? oh boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I currently graduated with a 2.53 gpa. I was suspended for one year and managed to graduate! I realized school is not a thing for me in long term. My major was in art history, but jobs like museum curating require you to have a masters degree. I aspire to become a writer one day, but want a stable job to support that. What career would you recommend that is close to my major and requires no grad school and no social media?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>buddy, i know next to nothing about art history. but i wear many hats around here, apparently, so lemme put on my career advising cap and see if anything changes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/l0MYx2asxOpwttTNu\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>all right, all right, let&#8217;s see. stable jobs, hmm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/9Sc3xiTns7y8w\/giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>oh, what&#8217;s that? no such thing as a stable job in this economy? cool cool cool cool cool, okay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/1BXa2alBjrCXC\/giphy.gif\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>in all seriousness, i can&#8217;t tell you much more than a simple google search will be able to. i would recommend that you contact <a href=\"https:\/\/studentlife.utoronto.ca\/service\/career-advising-appointments\/\">career advising<\/a> for one of their lovely advising appointments, which you should still be able to take advantage of as a recent grad. they even seem to have revamped their website and offerings to continue to support students virtually, which is cool. kudos to them. last time i linked to them, they didn&#8217;t even have a phone number listed and it felt like a dead end. you&#8217;re in luck, i guess. go for it! go talk to them! pursue your writer dreams while bagging that stable income! but good luck dodging social media lol, i&#8217;ve had no luck so far (exhibit one: i run this website and all its attached accounts).<\/p>\n<p>good luck!!<\/p>\n<p>be Boundless,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I currently graduated with a 2.53 gpa. 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