Posted on 11/12/2015 8:39:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Yup. Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman and a fabulous philosopher.
One is more likely to find a job as a welder than a philosophy major. And far more money as an engineer, even a mediocre one, than any philosophy major dreams of making.
Sure, but most of those jobs are for city and state governments.
Department of water and power, bridges and so forth.
Gets outrageous in the shipyards. That is where they all need regulating IMO.
Oh good....Rubio should go become a philosopher and quit the race he isn’t going to win....and same FLA from the other embarrassment they have had to face, then do away with the other embarrassment ‘cry baby’ bushy....
I work at Ivy Tech in Indiana..welding here is a BIG thing. We have HS kids coming here to get certified. It’s not easy and yes HS boys are idiots..but we also have older students coming here to learn new things, brush up skills.
Similar to what I’ve heard welders making in Milwaukee working for P&H (Joy Global) et al.
Having majored in Philosophy doesn’t necessarily make anyone a philosopher.
Think engineers ...
An experienced underwater welder working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico earns way more than a tenured Philosophy prof and he earns every dime of it, unlike the Philosophy prof.
I don't doubt that tenured college philosophy professors do okay, but how many philosophy majors does it take to support the career of one philosophy professor? And what percentage of college philosophy majors end up earning a living by doing philosophy?
I betcha more welding course graduates earn wages by doing welding than philosophy majors do by doing philosophy! And I betcha a greater percentage of recent philosophy graduates live in their mom's basement than welders!
If a philosopher fell in the forest, would anyone care?
Does Allah Pundit mean we need more philosophers ,than welders? Has he forgotten the admonition by the Emperor of Germany as he strove to unite Germany struggling with Marx and Engle ? The best way I know how to punish a province is to allow it be ruled by a philopspher.
Do we really need any more philosophers? Pretty much everything has already been said in that department.
It was in the context of votech. And he’s right. Welders earn more than philosophers. The stupid article twists it by saying that philosophy majors get jobs in other fields. But the larger point is that there’s nothing wrong with being a welder and it’s shame that we don’t’ see the value in those types of jobs.
Welders in the small, private, dirty,non-Union shipyard where I work make $22.50 an hour. That’s average wage for welders around here and here is in Alabama not Califonia.
Rubio is right in that there is no market for philosophers in this modern world.
The bearer of that degree has to also have some marketable skill in order to earn money. Writer? Higher degree on top of philosophy? People skills that lead to a management position? Tech skills?
But that’s true of any degree. In this world, you have to know how to DO something other than just think about it.
Like welding.
(I personally know a kid who has a masters degree in sociology. He’s getting by on temp jobs. He’s probably capable of welding if he weren’t so full of himself that he would think it beneath him.)
I have no idea what shipyards you are talking about but here in the south most welding jobs in shipyards are some of the lowest paying in the industry.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/23/shale-boom-pipeline-welders-make-150000-in-ohio-while-liberal-arts-majors-flounder/#ixzz3rIXVbblc
As Mel Brooks said: “Stand up philosophers? You mean stand up BS artists”
To flip a burger or weld a joint...that is the question.
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