Scope and $.get [duplicate]

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This is probably a crazy stupid question, but I don't get why the things variable is not being reset. Here's what I have:

var things = "";

    jQuery.get("/Users/MyName/Documents/File.txt", function(data) {

        things = data;

      });

    console.log(things)

Whenever I do the console log within the function, it works. When I take it out of the function, it doesn't work. I thought I was setting the things var globally but apparently not?