HALIFAX, N.S. —- Life as a recent graduate can be scary. You may not know what career path is right for you, and if you were an arts major, jokes and rumours may have you feeling like your career path is a dead end. Luckily, the Mackerel has you covered. Here are five potential job prospects for recent arts graduates.
- Rodeo clown
This is a dying art, and if you are a clown in your day to day life (safe bet), why not put that to good use in your career? It will also be funny for friends, family, lovers and haters to watch you run for your life from a rampaging bull.
- Cryptid hunter
As an arts graduate looking for a job, you have plenty of experience searching for something nonexistent. Try your hand hunting down elusive creatures. Sure, no one has proven Bigfoot’s existence yet, but if you can find him, we may finally know if it’s true what they say about big feet.
- World record holder
There is so much freedom with this career choice, with various amounts of earning potential. You could hold a record for most days gone without showering, though that might be held by a computer science student already. Perhaps the world’s biggest disappointment? You may be closer to that one than you think.
- Scooby Doo villain
If you are a petty individual who wants to wear a disguise and torment those who have even just slightly wronged you, this is the job for you. Someone else got a promotion over you at your last job? Why not dress up as a ghost and haunt the place until it goes out of business?
WARNING: This career can be highly rewarding, but beware of any meddling kids.
- Henchman, henchwoman or otherwise identifying henchperson
If you feel like you are lacking sufficient experience to be a full-on villain, you can start with an entry level position as a Henchperson. Some organizations will still require previous experience serving an evil entity, but if you have been a TA before you have that under your belt. Henchpeople get paid the medium bucks to engage in suspicious illegal activity, respond to the command “sick ‘em boys,” and when based in Gotham, get brutally jumped by a cosplaying billionaire.
By Sam Creighton