Quote Originally Posted by Syme View Post
That's cute, but most people who graduate with liberal arts BAs will find themselves in that sort of boat. Your standard is not very realistic.
My cousin at least used to be ashamed that her husband "only" makes $100,000 a year. So yeah, some people do have unrealistic perceptions of the world.

Well, I can't claim to be an expert on museum employment practices, but I took a look on job-search and similar websites and saw a number of listings for museums, historical foundations, etc. that said stuff like "minimum BA in History". I'd say translation of ancient documents is far less realistic, that's work that usually gets given to grad students involved in the project (if not guys with actual doctorates), and it requires the appropriate language skills too.
Yeah, I didn't mean he could do work in translation without necessarily a higher degree. However, a BA in ancient history should entail some study of at least either ancient Greek or Latin.

Historical societies also make sense, though I am a bit surprised that many museums would look for BAs in ancient history, even ones with large collections of Grecco-Roman art, unless they had backgrounds in other fields as well.

I was kidding, if he goes military his work will have absolutely nothing to do with ancient history; what I meant was the most relevance he can hope for there is to be deployed to a historically significant place, and then told to do something boring and/or dangerous in that place. As for stretching, I was saying that it's the FS that's a stretch, not the military.
Oh, I know you were kidding... and my comment was talking about the FS too, since they care more about modern Iraq and Afghanistan than knowledge of the fact that Inana was Goddess of Heaven and Earth to the Sumerians...