Am I making a significant misplay in life by majoring in philosophy? What is there to do with such a degree?

Am I making a significant misplay in life by majoring in philosophy? What is there to do with such a degree?

Probably. The problem is that being smart never impresses anyone because stupid people can't recognize intelligence.

It's better to get a hard skill that you can show people. AKA, STEM. Then when you have a valuable job improving society, you can study all the philosphy you want with your leisure time. You aren't tied into trying to publish stupid shit you don't care about to get funding, or take seriously stupid ideas you don't care about because they're the "prevailing view" or something.

If you decide you have something important to write about, you can publish it on your own time.

t. Philosphy major with a crappy job obviously

I don't like STEM and I'm not good at it. Should I just kill myself?

Can you into business or art?

You could stuff your resumé with volunteer work or go into trade school rather than go into college, too.

>business
Maybe. Not very motivated at all though.

>art
I've been told several times there are no jobs here.

My family was just insistent that I go to college and get a productive job. So I'm looking around STEM and feel like a dull drain for only having a remote interest in humanities and wasting time.

>being a worthless continental
If you were an analytic you'd have no problem finding a place in STEM

McDonald's
Starbucks
Walmart

take your pick, cuck

There's apparently a lot of money to be made on niche pornographic art commissions.

Do you have drawing skills and at least one weird kink?

If you want to study philosophy study philosophy op. University isn't a trade school. STEM and CS departments are full of kids who have no interest in the subject matter beyond the already watered curriculum and will never find jobs in stem proper anyway. 9/10 cs grads couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag.

not OP but won't business still have a lot of similarities with STEM in terms? if he's not good at 1 I don't imagine he'll have an easy time with the other

Meh, he is on this board, so I figured he might be interested in economy, law or handling people.

That means you are probably unintelligent and you are better off going into philosophy or sociology.

If he can't handle STEM then he probably won't be able to handle accounting or finance as they are quantitative and technical subjects. Marketing and management "science" is gender studies-tier easy though.

t. dual majored in chem engineering and finance

lel

a finance degree is basically ms excel and a "calculus for business majors" class

wtf are you talking about

Go to fucking tradeschool, moron.

this guy gets it

Liking something is determines a lot about your potential to handle that thing. Maybe he is bad at math because counting apples just wasn't that interesting to him? Stats, odds, game theory, interest rates - that shit can be way interesting.

Harsh truth bombs, lad.

here, have a life story
>went to an elite university right after hs because that's what smart people are supposed to do
>undeclared arts major
>don't know what I want to do and realize my degree isn't going to make it easy to find a career unless I go to grad school which I don't really want
>start to become very depressed, stop going to classes and engage in self-destructive behavior
>drop out, go home, get a job and fix my depression through therapy

>enroll in a maritime college which is basically a trade school for training people to be officers on cargo ships
>the things I'm studying are interesting but very hard
>do an internship on a container ship
>wow this job really fucking sucks, it ranges from being extremely boring to incredibly stressful, have to work 12 hours a day 7 days a week, everyone is a dick to eachother, the expectation is that you know everything as soon as you arrive since you passed the licensing exam, no room for a learning curve
>eventually come to the conclusion that this isn't the path for me and drop out again

>get a job working as a security guard
>literally getting paid to do nothing
>coworkers are fucking braindead, want to kill myself
>decide to take an EMT class to see if I'm ready to commit myself to a college level class
>pass the class but still don't want to go back to school, so I start working as an EMT, nice to work a job with some prestige but the pay is shit
>do that for a few years, eventually enroll in a state school and finish my degree with a BA in history
>continue working as an EMT for a while until I eventually get a better paying job in the police
and that's where I am now, getting an education is never a waste. Even if your "useless" degree doesn't get you through the door to a job, without a degree that door isn't even open. My dream is to work in the foreign service one day.

This. So much this. Don't be the kid who slept through math classes in high school who suddenly decides he wants to be an electrical engineer when he enters college because he hears stem jobs are in demand.

Internships are your tickets to getting jobs after college. Spend every summer working in a relevant industry, study what you want during your time at school. If you only have one major, spend a lot of your elective classes on a wide swath of practical classes that you can apply to the real world. Focus on your philosophy degree, become as enlightened as you can, and go into the world as one of the most put together candidates possible.

Remember: Internships get you jobs, not degrees.

If you have any passion whatever for philosophy, I strongly advise you NOT to study it at a university.

Can you expand on this? I think I kinda get the gist. Liberal arts, even at major universities has gone down the drain.

>I'm not good at it.
Try harder. If humans were equipped to perform mathematics then all men would be able innately add.

I'm in a similar situation.

>parents paying entirely for education
>feel obligated to major in something """useful""" so as not to feel like i'm wasting my time and their money
>don't have any real hobbies
>regret not being someone who's passionate about anything
And here I am studying Japanese and Philosophy for no real reason.

Go into law

Read On Philosophy at the Universities by Schopenhauer, and then imagine it being 10 times worse than what he depicts. That's modern university philosophy