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I majored in both math and philosophy and they have been useless in my career as a software engineer. If you want to do another quantitative discipline I'd sugg
by rdouble 14y ago
I majored in both math and philosophy and they have been useless in my career as a software engineer. If you want to do another quantitative discipline I'd suggest statistics. Non-quantitative, I'd suggest something like art history over Philosophy, or even graphic design if you wanted a more "practical" minor.
- contemplating1 14y agoSo would you say math/philosophy would be useful in more of a research type position? In that case you would probably need even higher levels of math - so the logic behind philosophy might be useless either way?
- rdouble 14y agoApplied math is very useful to software engineering and many other fields. However, I majored in pure math, which is not useful. Philosophy is interesting (depending on your personality) but is mostly irrelevant. Philosophy major logic courses will help you ace the LSAT if for some reason you want to go to law school.
- notJim 14y agoWhy art history over philosophy? Just curious.
- rdouble 14y agoThe classes are more fun, often you go to museums. You have something to talk about with other people that they might actually find interesting. It gives you another dimension to travel. You can meet other interesting and nice people in class - in philosophy class you mostly meet creeps.