When I was a teen, I worked for $7.25/hr at a physically intensive job shelving books at an understaffed library.
One day I told my coworker, who did same job as me, that I was planning on majoring in philosophy.
"That's cool," he said, loading up a cart, "that was my major too!"
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Im sorry we have created a society where you couldn't follow the path you wanted because it wouldn't have made you enough money. 😔
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I don't know if we'll ever be free of that. Through all of human history, humans have been spending most of their time in various forms of survival
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um i also work that job, and it is not "physically intensive"
make well above minimum wage too
libraries are great
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The intensity of the job varies a lot by library. I've visited some libraries and watched their pages and was like jesus christ I wish I could have worked here
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Most of the people I know who majored in philosophy are doing very well now. It seems correlated with a pretty high IQ relative to other subjects. But I was also in a set of high-performing philosophers and think it's probably more useful as a minor than a major.
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Yeah, if I were hiring for Bloomberg I would look favorablelt on the degree especially if combined with a good school. You don't get a lot of dumb Harvard trained philosophers.
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I'm still amazed that people get into debt for degrees which are of very little use. Baffling. They are luxury subjects.
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