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And also wrong. My wife left academia from philosophy and is pulling in north of 100k right now doing project management stuff. She got there within 3 years,
by hogu 15y ago
And also wrong. My wife left academia from philosophy and is pulling in north of 100k right now doing project management stuff. She got there within 3 years, though we're in NYC so it's easier to get more cash here. It was a hard to transition, most employers don't know what to do with a humanities degree, but she was able to do it. A programmer coworker of mine also worked in philosophy, and transitioned to programming and is doing rather well for himself. He did this over the past few years, so long after computer science was well established. Transitioning out of humanities academia into non-academic jobs is difficult, much harder than for those in the sciences, but it's quite doable
- robrenaud 15y agoPhilosophy majors tend to be a lot smarter than the rest of the humanities. http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/GRE%20Scores%20by%20Intended%20Graduate%20Major.htm http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/GRE%20Scores%20by%20Intended... http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/ETS%20LINK.pdf http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/ETS%20LINK.pdf
- anotherthrow 15y agoTheir salaries are not bad too: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-Degrees_that_Pay_you_Back-sort.html http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-Degree... As a philosophy PhD, I find the Philosophy > Starbucks meme obnoxious, but it's especially silly when philosophy is amongst the best Art/Humanities degrees one can do from that perspective (particularly if one then goes on to do something like work for an international law firm for a while - the rather conventional switch I've taken).