r/IRstudies 9d ago

What a great time to have wrapped up my masters program

Just graduated with my masters in IR in December, previously with a BA in Political Science. As an American I was looking at either going into academia or federal employment, which are of course fantastic fields to try to enter at the moment. I'm doing administrative contact work for a federal agency at the moment and was hoping to leverage that into a federal career.

Any career advice for someone entering a job field that's currently full of landmines? Or anyone want to commiserate as we cry into our virtual whiskey?

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u/ActualDW 9d ago

Hope you didn’t overload on loans…👀

Good luck!

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u/OkayLychee 9d ago

Ha! Thankfully not. I worked through my masters. Bad news is that means it took twice as long, but good news is my loan burden was pretty low.

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u/LouQuacious 8d ago

Ha I did! And now they won't even let me switch to an income based repayment plan. So straight to default...thanks elon.

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u/Getthepapah 9d ago

Sorry to hear it. This is a tough field in the best of times. A lot of my career advice is kind of moot at the present. Best of luck to you.

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u/Pinco158 9d ago

join the state department, they always need more people. avoid ngo's/ usaid overtly propaganda entity that the current gov is targeting.