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Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 03 Oct 2009, 05:26 ---Actually, studying Philosophy is really good for getting jobs. If you've graduated with a degree in philosophy employers know that you've been taught to think and analyze properly, and usually that you're up to the challenge.
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So, you're good for a job that requires no previous knowledge, but that tends to be very few. With philosophy, it's easier to get into med school or law school and maybe a few others that don't require any previous knowledge. However, when you graduate, it tends to be with very few marketable skills. I'm not talking down to philosophy majors either. I graduated with music and physics degrees. The music is exceptionally useless, because you get the job based on how you play, not whether you have a piece of paper that says you're good at music. The physics slightly less-so. It tends to mean that I can do any technical job with a very small bit of training. Unfortunately, I think most engineers were made fun of/shown up by physicists in school so they don't tend to hire us. So, I'm getting a PhD in an engineering field.
*sigh*
Why am I in three bands? Only one of them has any realistic hope of playing gigs (because we already have, and have more on the books), and none of them are music that I truly enjoy (jazz). I need more time. I motion to extend the week by a week.
Barmymoo:
I just arrived at uni and although my room is huge and has the best view (I picked the prettiest college and my window looks right out over the nicest gardens), there is no sink. It isn't a major problem because the bathroom is a couple doors one way and the kitchen a couple the other way, but it's kind of annoying to have to find my keys and go out the room just to wash my hands.
On the other hand: my room is awesome. I have a few pieces of antique furniture, a few pieces that look like they are antique, masses of book space and the world's smallest wardrobe. Tomorrow I'm going to speak to housekeeping about hanging some pictures because the picture hooks are about eight feet up and I can't reach them.
SonofZ3:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 03 Oct 2009, 05:26 ---Actually, studying Philosophy is really good for getting jobs. If you've graduated with a degree in philosophy employers know that you've been taught to think and analyze properly, and usually that you're up to the challenge.
I hate having arguments (debates?) with people who take philosophy, cause they're so damned good at it usually.
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I graduated with a Degree in Environmental Sciences, with Minors in English and Philosophy. That 5 years has done NOTHING for me in finding work since I graduated. The 5 months I spent in police academy has done a thousand times more than my 5 years in college. Really, the 8 months I spent doing GPS fieldwork and using GIS to create maps has done more for me than the rest of my college experience, as far as getting work.
tania:
i'm a little biased against philosophy majors, but admittedly this is based on the fact that the majority of people i knew who took philosophy in uni had parents who paid for every single one of their expenses and took anywhere from 5-8 years to finally get their degree just for the hell of it. i actually had the following conversation with one of my old roommates (one of the aforementioned students whose parents were paying for her entire education) a few months ago which was just a little bit shocking -
me: so what are you planning to do with philosophy after you graduate?
her: oh i'm going to get my master's degree in philosophy.
me: what are you going to do with a master's?
her: oh then i'm gonna get my phd.
me: no, no, i mean... what are you going to do for money?
her: oh. i don't know.
all judgments aside though, philosophy really is pretty tough and good preparation for a lot of other areas of study. just don't make plans to get a dang phd in it with your parent's money before you have at least some idea of what you want to do with your life.
supersheep:
don't do philosophy
what i learned from my three years of philosophy:
a) you can basically never go to class and still get a 2.1
b) philosophy is bunk
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