How does a double major in Film and English make money?

It doesn’t while still in training (school).

Get a job, any job that you can if you’re as desperate as the details section leads me to believe.

Move to Hollywood, I guess.

Or just write your ass off. Get better and better. Then the money might flow. If you’re lucky. It’s all about luck really.

My sister’s using her degree in Literature by bartending.
You may want to find yourself doing something similar until you find a more appropriate use of it.

If you’re looking for something related to both courses, be a scriptwriter. Write up witty lines and memorable cliffhangers while taking into consideration the cinematography of the scene. You’d have an easier time visualizing the story you wrote on-screen since you took up Film and you also have background on great fictional works because of your English major.
Of course, you’d have to start small, with independent film makers or even you’re own short movie/ animation. Get some publicity going and make unique films. Someone’s bound to pick it up. Goodluck!

I took a Biology degree and supervisor and management skills and experience and was hired as an engineer (basically a project manager/problem solver) by a large company and worked my way up the ranks as supervisor, manager and ultimately a business manager with a ton of responsibility and matching authority and excellent compensation. Its not always the degrees in themselves that make you money. The degrees should indicate you can think and analyze and solve things and when grouped with skills and experience may make you of value to someone willing to compensate you for the entire package.

This is a question you were supposed to ask before starting college and choosing that major, not 2 years later.

Not easily. If you want to write scripts, then I suggest you do that. Don’t throw your money at college hoping it will pay off, at least with that major. Use your college for something practical and let that confidence carry your future writing.

If you’re not going into entertainment, you can do similar work in a corporate setting or for corporate clients in advertising, video production, or communications. Also, you can teach.

Don’t look at the majors. Look at the skills you have. What have you learned in your study of English and film that people will pay money for you to do?

First off, study what you want. Love what you’re doing. The money plans come a little later.

But yes, you can. Screenwriting, playwriting, etc are some options to consider and you can always fall back on your general English major (which allows you to go into practically any field including law, communications, and yes, even medicine!).

How does a double major in Film and English make money? As a waiter.

Oh, and welcome to Fluther! Lurve!

Write about your life, Id be willing to bet people could relate.

Move to NYC or LA. Apply for as many internships as you possibly can – or for PA (Production Assistant) gigs. If you DO want to write, make sure you’re applying for positions in production companies that have writing departments. The first job is the hardest to get.

Work your tush off, show up early and stay late every day. Never complain. Take extra work off of your superiors plate. Remind people what you want to be doing in the industry because they’re busy and likely to forget.

It will be very, very hard.

Expect to earn between $100 and $150 a day for the first 3–4 years. Don’t expect to be making bank anytime soon. Unless you LOVE it, unless working in entertainment is what you REALLY want to do, unless you don’t mind 10 – 16 hour work days sometimes 7 days a week, then go for something else.

It doesn’t seem to matter much what you have your undergrad degree in anymore, unless you’re going to grad school.

Good Luck!

Simple. You go into Accounting.

In case it wasn’t obvious (and just so nobody gets upset), I am an English major. I minored in Film Studies. Now I am unemployed after 7 years in academic theatre administration. So, that’s what you do unless you know someone who will hold the gate open for you at MGM or something.

@Shegrin That’s similar to what my mother ended up doing. Her passion was psychology but didn’t see it as a “secure” field, money-wise. So she went into doing what she knew there would be jobs for. She does programming for tax software these days.