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>For the past 5 years, I hoped I was going to be a philosophy professor Assuming he goes to university or somewhere. Because most people find it boring he shou

>For the past 5 years, I hoped I was going to be a philosophy professor Assuming he goes to university or somewhere. Because most people find it boring he should have chosen history, latin, or simply other humanities subjects. How does one even jump from tech to humanities anyways???

watwut 6y ago
> How does one even jump from tech to humanities anyways??? Why would that be impossible or shocking? Most people are able to learn multiple different things and have interest in multiple different things. Universities typically allow you to take courses from different topics too.
- lihaciudaniel 6y ago
  >Universities typically allow you to take courses from different topics too. But in America I don't think you can do that, some families don't have the privilege to spend so much money on somebody to get a bachelor in philosophy and then have no jobs afterwards.
  - C1sc0cat 6y ago
    My understanding is To get a US degree you have to take courses outside your main topic unlike the UK
DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
> How does one even jump from tech to humanities anyways??? when you're the type of person who likes to question everything and who wants to build things to make the world a "better place", then switching to humanities with a tech foundation is a good option. It can be very dangerous though. One is at risk of undoing all the previous conditioning (which costed a lot of time and money) and bring oneself to realize that it takes more than just "an idea for an app", or VC funding to actually contribute to society in a lasting and non-fraudulent way. It also might anger your colleagues who will never admit that they've been conned, drank too much of the corporate/academic kool-aid, and besides nobody likes people swimming against the stream especially when the reward isn't monetary and has even got high potential of working against you in the short term financially. How dare those damn fools who want to be better engineers and also better humans by widening their world-view!
- eru 6y ago
  Making lots of money is how society tells you what contributions it realy values. A big part of the rest is empty talk. It's easy to say that we value eg teachers or nurses or janitors. Doesn't make us pay them more.
  - lihaciudaniel 6y ago
    Most philosophy professor would be counter culture and want communism or any other idealistic doctrine and wouldn't find his/her self worth on money
  - rubidium 6y ago
    No. It’s how the economy tells you what is valuable. Economy != society. In fact (in the US) we have a terrible economic system right now for our society, but it seems to be better than anything else that’s been tried for large modern nation states.
    - eru 6y ago
      Oh, far from it. There are much more successful economic systems around than the US one. America oddities like government mortgage guarantees, or federal deposit insurance, or licensing for interior designers are not necessary, and in fact not good for the economy. Neither are pervasive price controls. The US would do better, if they moved to a more market based economy.
      - rubidium 6y ago
        FYI I’m not talking about the narrow spectrum of more socialist to more free market republic/democratic capitalism. There’s plenty of details to debate there of course. I mean general range of human experiments in how to structure society: monarchy, feudalism, religious state, empire, full socialism/communism, fascism, etc...
        eru 6y ago
SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
I graduated with a History degree in 2008. Had zero job success, a couple of years later went to a tech school for 2 year Computer Engineering Technologist diploma, the rest is history.... no, wait, the rest is programming.

watwut 6y ago

> How does one even jump from tech to humanities anyways??? Why would that be impossible or shocking? Most people are able to learn multiple different things and have interest in multiple different things. Universities typically allow you to take courses from different topics too.

lihaciudaniel 6y ago
>Universities typically allow you to take courses from different topics too. But in America I don't think you can do that, some families don't have the privilege to spend so much money on somebody to get a bachelor in philosophy and then have no jobs afterwards.
- C1sc0cat 6y ago
  My understanding is To get a US degree you have to take courses outside your main topic unlike the UK

DyslexicAtheist 6y ago

> How does one even jump from tech to humanities anyways??? when you're the type of person who likes to question everything and who wants to build things to make the world a "better place", then switching to humanities with a tech foundation is a good option. It can be very dangerous though. One is at risk of undoing all the previous conditioning (which costed a lot of time and money) and bring oneself to realize that it takes more than just "an idea for an app", or VC funding to actually contribute to society in a lasting and non-fraudulent way. It also might anger your colleagues who will never admit that they've been conned, drank too much of the corporate/academic kool-aid, and besides nobody likes people swimming against the stream especially when the reward isn't monetary and has even got high potential of working against you in the short term financially. How dare those damn fools who want to be better engineers and also better humans by widening their world-view!

eru 6y ago
Making lots of money is how society tells you what contributions it realy values. A big part of the rest is empty talk. It's easy to say that we value eg teachers or nurses or janitors. Doesn't make us pay them more.
- lihaciudaniel 6y ago
  Most philosophy professor would be counter culture and want communism or any other idealistic doctrine and wouldn't find his/her self worth on money
- rubidium 6y ago
  No. It’s how the economy tells you what is valuable. Economy != society. In fact (in the US) we have a terrible economic system right now for our society, but it seems to be better than anything else that’s been tried for large modern nation states.
  - eru 6y ago
    Oh, far from it. There are much more successful economic systems around than the US one. America oddities like government mortgage guarantees, or federal deposit insurance, or licensing for interior designers are not necessary, and in fact not good for the economy. Neither are pervasive price controls. The US would do better, if they moved to a more market based economy.
    - rubidium 6y ago
      FYI I’m not talking about the narrow spectrum of more socialist to more free market republic/democratic capitalism. There’s plenty of details to debate there of course. I mean general range of human experiments in how to structure society: monarchy, feudalism, religious state, empire, full socialism/communism, fascism, etc...
      - eru 6y ago

SketchySeaBeast 6y ago

I graduated with a History degree in 2008. Had zero job success, a couple of years later went to a tech school for 2 year Computer Engineering Technologist diploma, the rest is history.... no, wait, the rest is programming.