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What can I actually do with my degree?

I plan on majoring in linguistics and whenever I tell someone that I always get "what kind of jobs are there for a linguist?" Honestly, I don't know. So what CAN I do with my degree? What kind of jobs are suited to my studies?
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Marina’s Answer

Well, 'linguist' is a very wide definition of what job you can actually be doing. Aside from writing, teaching and translating/interpreting, there are jobs that are kind of in between linguistics and another discipline, like therapy, forensics, computational linguistics. For the latter, in the industry they usually want you to develop various language systems (conversational agents, voice assistants, search, to name a few), which requires solid math, statistics and programming skills. It is an exciting field which is not going to disappear in the coming decades at least, so if working with language inspires you, you might wanna consider exactly which aspect you like about it and then decide on the specialization.
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Kristina’s Answer

You could explore the localization field. This industry is where software meets language, and it is a growing industry and can be lucrative. Think about using any application, like LinkedIn, and switching your language to a different one. Thereare dozens of people, if not hundreds, behind the scenes to make that possible, from the underlying internationalization & architecture to program management to translation to testing. As the world becomes more connected, we will only need more linguists to bridge the gaps.
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