For those of you who majored in philosophy, what job did you get after graduating?

I work as a senior support worker for adults with learning disabilities.....primarily autism.

£18k per year

OP here. I don't really care what job I do as long as I can pay the bills. Am I a destined barista? Or are there business/finance jobs I can get if my gpa is high?

I'm unemployed but I've had a few jobs since. Truth be told, I don't think my major is important - I was only thinking yesterday that I know so few of my male friends in decent (non-teaching) positions. Female friends? Oh, they're doing fine in the types of positions I keep applying for :(

Did you put Veeky Forums on your resume under 'previous experience'?

nice photoshop bud

Should probably specify those jobs:

- Barista (lol) and other assorted customer service jobs
- Data entry
- Copywriter/editing
- Marketing Assistant

>majoring in philosophy while not being rich and set for life
Are you actually retarded?

hedge fund analyst

VP at google

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>so autistic he actually went through the trouble of shopping it
seek help my mang

Law. It's applied philosophy, really.

>he doesn't know he can dynamically edit the HTML of a web page with his browser
that said nice trips

underrated

lmfao

>I expressed my autism using different tools
Okay I guess.

no, this one was me, and it is true.

Not me, but a female coworker of mine works the floor of a bookstore for minimum wage. I have the exact same job but I didn't waste all the time and money of getting a degree in philosophy, so at least i have that.

What's a job?

Software engineer @ Facebook

I had a good laugh with this thread, thanks guys
also
all me btw

>not getting a scholarship because of outstanding grades and research

>getting a scholarship somehow makes the degree less useless

If you are not up to starve to death for philosophy you are a pseud

You shouldn't study philosophy to get a good job. It's something to study for its own sake, gives you a richer inner life, more discerning perspective on things yada yada

Production line manager at the local philosophy factory.

This. Introspection is for the bourgeoisie.

Production manager at an international meme manufacturing company.

If your happiness is entirely concerned with material success then already you've already proved yourself unfit for a philosophy degree. This is self-evident. If you must ask yourself a question in similarity to this, you do not have the philosophical spirit. Quit now, before you waste your, albeit relative, monetary value and ruin your chances of a thriving material life.

>implying you can't experience instropection without the anxiety of knowing that all your physical commodities will vanish and you will be pretty much alone with your self and because of your self and for your self and then studying the most primal fears of out animal nature to identify what being is, means, should be and will be, regardless if that can be expressed in language or not, or if it can be expressed at all
fuck off

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or, should you equip intelligence, get a double major; having both a degree in mathematics(or any science) and philosophy should establish you as intellectually rigorous and overall superior to your possible coworkers.

help hleper

I need to pay the bills somehow.
This is actually ny dilemma. Im halfway through both majors (phil and math) but math is boring me as of late

>>implying you can't
meant can
ftfm

I agree with this. A philosophy degree on its own is worthless, but philosophy paired with something more practical could potentially set you apart from your peers.

i giggled, kekked, and lold.
then i got sad

>so you can do engi stuff so mr shekelberg can be more rich thanks to your work
>yeah im also an expert on nietzs-
>here is your hammer go hit rocks with your other coworkers, welcome to this familiy! *fucks your hs crush"

>contemplating life and reality when your life is on easy mode
>life MEANS something because my frappe' wasnt as frapped as it normally does. I wonder what it means? Perhaps the frappe is a representation of my award winning show dog, and my thoughts on its frappeiness is like ME thinking about if my showdog wasnt as good of a showdog as he should have been. and this straw is like how i see the world.
>i need to write that down
>pay publisher to print those exact words
>MUH PHILOSOPHY MASTERY

What should we proles study to advance ourselves then?

seewhen richfags get into philosophy you get hacks like foucault

High school physics teacher. I'm always told by administration that my class is easy to follow and my students seem to like me.

comfy

Philosophy & Classics degree - Philosophy and Religion teacher at secondary school

When will you kids realize you don't need academia to learn philosophy? Philosophy degrees are for the trust fund kids who can go to a private college and study whatever just for fun because they're already set for life regardless. There are enough resources online that you can learn philosophy just as well for extremely cheap, if not free. You can get entire college curriculums with 10 seconds of googling. If you absolutely insist on studying philosophy in college, either double major or minor in it with a practical major as your main. That doesn't mean you have to sell yourself into an industry you don't like, but it does mean you should also be learning something practical and applicable that people will actually pay you for.

You'll realize how quickly your romantic dreams of being a poor philosopher are ridiculous when you experience actually being poor, where you're far too hungry, stressed, busy, and dead tired to even think about picking up a book, let alone writing. Your brain will be running on 20% with no capacity to even think about philosophy. For everyone majoring in philosophy without having their financial security set for life, I implore you to reconsider. Double major or minor if you have to, but learn a practical skill as well. I've seen enough smart kids fuck their lives up because they romanticized the poor philosopher/artist life too much.

>I've seen enough smart kids fuck their lives up because they romanticized the poor philosopher/artist life too much.

I refuse to believe there are people THAT stupid.

or you could just not be stupid

majoring in philosophy at meme state school = bad, but that's cause you're a brainlet
majoring in philosophy at oxford = you can do w\e the fuck you want.

Is that actually some of Heidi's shit? Where should I start with the man?

Kinda
You need to start with the everyone before him T B H

K obviously, supposing I have then what?

>majoring in foreign language and philosophy
>about to enter junior year
>haven't taken any core classes for phil, so still have time to jump ship I guess
>have no idea what else to choose
>regret switching out of engineering slightly
Is math difficult? Keep in mind I'm a brainlet.

This accurately describes one of my best friends. He set himself up to be a sculptor/philosopher. His sculpture is beautiful, but not really in any kind of demand. Philosophy pays no bills. He lives in a trailer, constantly concerned about how to pay his bills, and has to pull doubles at the local meat packing plant to make ends meet. He is entirely too exhausted to create at this point. He's very bright. Had he picked up a tradeskill, he could be spending 76 hours a week creating. As is, he works and sleeps. He only has the energy to work on his own projects on the weekend. He;s thought about filing bankruptcy several times, but the student loans are the majority of his debt, and they don't go away.

then start with him you dummy lol

Why not go into law?

That requires graduating from a decent Anglo university.

Because Ive worked at a law firm the past three summers and dont really want that job. It's the family business so I know what's entailed in the profession fairly well

I haven't but I know a phil. major who started a chain of cafes

Welfarian.

Didn't graduate though, diplomas are a spook.

>You'll realize how quickly your romantic dreams of being a poor philosopher are ridiculous when you experience actually being poor, where you're far too hungry, stressed, busy, and dead tired to even think about picking up a book, let alone writing.
Right, but what about my romantics dreams of being a poor musician?

I stayed in school and got another degree in engineering, and then a masters degree in engineering. And now I sit in a cubicle all day making 57 dollars an hour and secretly read philosophy papers half the time.

sounds like a cuck life to me.

help pls

It's a grownup thing. You wouldn't understand.

I took pre-med classes while completing my philosophy degree, currently in med school

>not being an AI ontologist

philjobs.org/job/show/7346

pleb as fuck

As a philosophy major graduating this quarter, is there any way to undo this silliness for myself? I plan on going to grad school, am I better off just committing to philosophy in grad school and trying to get a PhD or should I just go to grad school for psychology or some shit?

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If you go to a top school people will hire you because of the name brand and presumed intelligence

Goldman Sachs hires art history majors right out of Harvard with no experience

But most other places you will need some kind of business/finance knowledge to be considered

Elder Sage

Programmer.

working at a company like that seems like fucking hell t b h

People just pay me for my wicked observations.

yes math is difficult.. would you like spending hours each day studying for engineering?

Sein und Zeit

This is embarrassing to read.

Not a philosophy major but a friend of mine is and now he's in law school to become an attorney.