My Bachelor's and first Master's degrees are in Classics (i.e. Latin & Ancient Greek). I never wanted to be anything other than a professor of Greek, but the Real World™ got in the way and made me pick a career where I could actually make money, so I parlayed that into a Master's in CS with a focus on natural-language processing and made a career out of that that's lasted 20+ years so far.
If we're listing pre-professional jobs, then I've been a
newspaper deliverer;
busboy;
Boy Scout camp counselor;
drugstore clerk;
university food–service manager;
proofreader of trade and scholarly books;
and other things that I've probably forgotten.
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My Bachelor's and first Master's degrees are in Classics (i.e. Latin & Ancient Greek). I never wanted to be anything other than a professor of Greek, but the Real World™ got in the way and made me pick a career where I could actually make money, so I parlayed that into a Master's in CS with a focus on natural-language processing and made a career out of that that's lasted 20+ years so far.
If we're listing pre-professional jobs, then I've been a