If you do consider teaching as a career field, English is also more in demand than history or social sciences. Social studies teachers are a dime a dozen! (I know because I train future social studies teachers and we are NOT a demand field like English, math, science, and special education.)

You can also consider a double major – social sciences and English. That’s what I had and it came in handy when I was a public school teacher.

Hope that helps!

My sister (the doctor) was an english major. My father (the lawyer) was a business major. My mother (designs telephone systems) started off as a PE major. See my point!!?

I personally am NOT going to vote for the history degree, because very few people can make history interesting for long periods of time. English is good, punctuation and grammer and such. Social science is good… its universal.