The Faculty of Arts at UBC has an excellent website with a number of biographies from former BA students who describe their career paths. Of particular note is Susan Biro’s interview which describes how she became a certified personal coach. She went through a period of time when she felt uncertain about her career path choices and how she might use her BA in Psychology. She eventually went to a personal coach to assist her in clarifying her goals and interests. She found the process appealed to her so she investigated the training and career possiblities in this field and eventually started her own business as a personal coach. Her story is a good example of how the career exploration process may uncover unexpected opportunities. Her website is at: http://www.susiebiro.com/cs.html .
Sep 03
September 16th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I don’t think they’d want to use my story: got the BA in Music, didn’t want to teach, so I went into sciences instead and got a job from that. Somehow I don’t think that’s the greatest PR.
Not that I don’t think my arts degree was useful, it’s just that I’m not directly paid for what it taught me.