Philosophy Kicks Ass
It is unavoidable that philosophy professors look out into a class and catch those students who sit there with their best impression of the gum-chomping “WTF is all of this s&*(t for, anyway?” pose. Well, sometimes they actually say it verbally too, or text it under the table to the student on the other side of the room. I always think of those students when studies come out that suggest that philosophy, as a job, actually rocks. Here’s the latest, from the Wall Street Journal, which ranks philosophy as the #12th best job in existence.
Word to your mother.
I’d rant, rave, and brag about how Historian is #7, but Librarian is #43. OUCH! Then again, most of the jobs I’m applying for are a combination of #7, #43, and #23. Not bad for (at least momentarily) avoiding the dissertation bullet. In hax0r speak: LOL u g0t pwnd!
Did you notice only a handful of the top jobs circumvented mathematics, while the bottom seem to altogether? I’m thinking about calculus II now…
At the very least, one needs to avoid the axe section in Walmart — not a good career option!
How are things going, by the way?
Me? I’m just a squirrel trying to get a nut. How about you?
Well, you know, it’s your world, I’m just living in it.
You all ready to return to the house of learning? And by the way: are you following through on that plan to minor? Or did you change your mind?
Come on, would a junzi really say he’s just living here?
I don’t know if I’m ready to return to the house of learning. Between work and assorted engagements my break just seems to have begun.
I would love the minor, but I’ll have to weather the synergy of November elections and a weak economy. I thought I once knew the definition of prudence, but I’ve been given a rude awakening.