A co-worker (and a great friend) of mine gave a lecture at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, on bridging the gap between the liberal arts and the tech industry.

A co-worker (and a great friend) of mine gave a lecture at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, on bridging the gap between the liberal arts and the tech industry. He talks about the value that liberal arts can provide the tech industry. In my opinion he is also giving rhetoric against this notion that you are tied to working in the same field that you studied at school, and that you have to follow the "correct" path that other people tell you is "marketable" for your career. We both studied liberal arts, and we both work together in tech. He got his PhD in Classical literature, and works on the strategy team. I am in my final semester for getting a BA in Philosophy, and I'm on the engineering team. If you listen to the lecture, around the 28min mark he says "I asked him, do you regret majoring in Philosophy?" My response is still the same now as it was when he asked me. I don't regret it, and I don't regret choosing it over computer science or a related major. I believe having the philosophy background helps me live a better life, and helps me do my job well. Ask certain academics in the philosophy department what exactly philosophy is, and they'll tell you something like: "the systematic testing of our rational beliefs about the world." This to me, is where philosophy and software engineering intersect. Link to the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wNv9FHLqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wNv9FHLqM