What can I do with a philosophy degree?

Question

what jobs?

Answer 1

Teach Philosophy, Be Unemployed, Do Something Not Related to Philosophy.

There are much better degrees you can get.

Answer 2

Looking for a job as a "philosopher" in the truest sense of the word can be frustrating, since the only listings you'll find are generally in academic positions at colleges and universities. However, your highly developed analytical and critical thinking and writing skills should be in high demand in a variety of industries. Many career postings ask for candidates with a liberal arts or humanities degree. In this case, a philosophy degree is advantageous because of the abstract reasoning and research background it provides. You might be suited for a career in:

    * Business. The ability to look at old problems and processes in new ways is invaluable in the business world.

    * Writing/Editing. There's always a shortage of people who are good at expressing themselves on paper (or online). Careers in journalism, marketing and advertising are excellent for good communicators.

    * Public service. Both politicians and career public servants benefit from the ability to identify, define and solve an astonishing variety of problems.

    * Law. Lawyers are really nothing more than philosophers trained in specifics of a country's legal system. Law students are famously subjected to a distinctly philosophical form of on-the-spot classroom quizzes known as the Socratic method.

    * Foreign service & diplomacy. The philosophical ability to discover unconscious assumptions and work around them is particularly important when working with people of different cultures.

Answer 3

There shouldn't even be philosophy degrees.  There's no need for them.  Everyone is capable of thought, and it is a ridiculous notion that someone could be better at thinking than someone else.  I know of a boxer with a PhD in philosophy!  Anyone is capable of philosophy.  

I suppose you can be respected by those who care about being 'certified'.

Answer 4

Teach?

Answer 5

Drive a taxicab. Truly, philosophers are nearly always employed by a university or college, and there is a very long list of people waiting to get into these positions.

You can hope to become a popular writer, like Alan Watts, but don't bet your house on it.

It's too bad - I'd like a career in philosophy too.

Answer 6

You can teach it--that's mostly all you can do with a Philosophy degree.

My dad majored in Philosophy and ended up in the Marketing business.

Answer 7

ha - looks like it is teach somebody to become a teacher who cannot do anything but teach others to be teachers.

but teach what?

I think it is like maths which is required and applied in all sciences but a mathematician in itself is not a career, philosophy is required in life, so whatever a person specializes in he must learn philosophy.

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