I'm trying to get the best of both worlds right now on my course. History and archaeology are closely intertwined departments, hopefully I can get some of the appeal of the general skills on my history course while getting more specific skills from archaeology modules and volunteering. Archaeology is ideally where I'd want to end up, but studying history will hopefully provide a good fallback.

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I took an environmental technology major, which was in the engineering department in my school. Going into water and wastewater treatment basically ensures I'm in high demand pretty much everywhere.
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This also sounds like a highly transferable skill, whatever job you take you're going to have to deal with people's shit.