14 Careers For Readers, Because It Is Possible To Make A Living Off Your Love Of Books
Posted on June 4, 2024
| 5 minutes
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| Valentine Belue
Perhaps you've just graduated with a degree in English or Creative Writing. Or perhaps you're looking to switch careers to something that involves a lot more reading. Or you already spend all of your time reading, and you're wondering if you can do that and still buy food. Well the good thing is, book-lovers: you don't have to starve in a room full of brand new hardcovers. You can get a job working with books! I'm not saying all of these industries are easy to break into, but here are some excellent careers for book lovers.
After all, despite all you've heard about how millennials have ruined every conceivable industry and how the only jobs out there are in computer programming or getting coffee for computer programmers, young people actually read more than any previous generation. Readers have more choices than ever before. The publishing industry has survived the advent of the internet, and the world still needs books (if only to turn them into prestige HBO dramas).
So, whether you see yourself in the offices of a major publishing house or living in the woods working on your poetry chapbook, here are some of the top careers for book lovers everywhere:
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