So you’re the kind of person who regularly gets accused of bringing up the past; someone who doesn’t live in the present and is unable to let bygones be bygones.

Hopefully, all this refers more to your obsession with History and eras of yonder than a psycho-emotional disposition that would send your friends running for the hills.

Historians are concerned with the ever-evolving, scrupulous narrative and research of past events from a socio-anthropological perspective and are often considered chronologers as a result of their research. Career historians typically work in universities and institutions of higher learning, museums, archival/research centres, government agencies and as consultants.

The job often involves meticulous investigation and analysis of competing ideas, facts and commonly-accepted assumptions to generate theories and narratives to account for what happened and why or how said event/phenomenon happened with the aid of other humanities disciplines; including economics, sociology, politics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy and linguistics.

If the notion of studying and writing about the past for doing so is the best present you could give yourself, consider becoming a Historian.

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