During WW2 he gave up his post a Cambridge and went to work as a porter at a hospital. "Wittgenstein, however, detested Cambridge academic life, and urged his

During WW2 he gave up his post a Cambridge and went to work as a porter at a hospital. "Wittgenstein, however, detested Cambridge academic life, and urged his pupils not to become academic philosophers, but to do something decent with their lives. When the war began he was eager to be involved in war work and to be, as he put it, 'where the bombs are falling'. In September 1941, through Professor John Ryle of Guy's Hospital (brother of Wittgenstein's friend the philosopher Gilbert Ryle) he began work as a porter at Guy's."