re: $450,000 in debt, PHD in philosophy, work at Wendy’s in Abbeville

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compared to other humanities and only if the go to law school

Nobody is hiring a fricking philosophy major for 70 or 80K out of school unless it is some government money wasting bullshite.

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What's with the anger about Philosophy majors?

Dems my people. Shout-out to Abbeville!

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but they can at least compete to manage a Starbucks or teach Psych 101 at a community college as an adjunct.

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I got a friend who only has a Bachelor's in history with a MBA. And he has a job teaching history at a community college somewhere. You can't tell me someone with a PHD can't get a job at a single community college anywhere.

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compared to other humanities and only if the go to law school Nobody is hiring a fricking philosophy major for 70 or 80K out of school unless it is some government money wasting bullshite.

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Accckkkkkcchhhhually...

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And when it comes to earnings for people who only have undergraduate degrees, philosophy majors have the fourth-highest median earnings, $81,200 per year, out-ranking business and chemistry majors, according to the ETS. Bar none, philosophy majors have the highest salary growth trajectory from entry to mid-career.

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someone with a PhD in "thinking" shouldve thought a little better

"I'd love to sit here and debate Descartes with you, but where's my baconator?"

I mean.. What kinda tard gets a PHD in philosophy??

Yeah this is a load of crap

My bachelors is in philosophy

Anyway to obtain a PhD in Philosophy at most universities you have to have reading ability in Greek or Latin and German or French - so when you graduated with the PhD most universities will hire you to teach something no way ULL would’ve not hired him (unless they do not offer anything above an intro to philosophy - but they would probably like a PhD to teach that - looks good for grants)

As for the Husserl thing - well - I doubt he’s had 6 papers published and no offers from anywhere - especially from places that teach German Idealism

Not a lot of details but to amass 450k of debt seems nutty unless there's some crazy health related issue.

At any rate, if one is that ashamed to work a regular job, I am not sure that the philosophical background has paid much as dividend as it should in way of personal growth.