What is a Fallback Career?
A fallback career can be defined as a second career choice, should one’s first choice in a career not be available. With today’s fluctuating job market, and with many jobs being sent overseas, many college students now often choose a fallback career option to maximize their diversity as future employees. In certain fields, having a fallback career is a definite must. For example, careers in the performing or visual arts or in writing can be challenging to maintain and may not at first offer enough money to live on. Students who can work at something else while writing the great American novel or becoming a famous actor or artist will find it much easier to pay off student loans and meet their financial obligations when school ends. In order to establish a fallback career a college student might pursue a double major, so that skills in a second field can compensate for competition in a first field. Alternately, they might evaluate other careers in the field in which they’d like to be in
