>>348230If you don't want to teach history and want something outside the military, maybe you should suck it up and do your master's degree.
More and more, graduate school programs are looking for majors outside of the ordinary "bachelor's equivalent" majors. History is being looked at as an increasingly competitive major in applications for law school and business school next to "Business Majors" and "Pre-Law". There are almost no Business majors at the bachelor's level that are nearly as demanding as any serious MBA program, and they are not preparing students for the master's studies. "Pre-Law" is just a repackaged Criminal Justice degree geared less toward police-work and more toward lawyer-work. However, undergraduate Criminal Justice studies at most 4 year universities are not anywhere near law school.
Instead, what the master's programs are looking for increasingly is majors outside of those. History is seen as a great one because of the amount of reading, analysis, and writing it requires.
In short, either do graduate studies or military. I would urge against military, though. I am in the Army right now. It's just something that you are not able to make an informed decision on before you join, and then when you do join, you're stuck. The only time you can really quit and nothing really happens to you is basic training, and basic is hardly representative of the rest of the Army.
