We could expand this conversation to talk about useless bachelor degrees. Why do some people major in philosophy? How many job opening are there for philosophers?
Why major in women’s studies? While studying women may be fascinating on some level, how many job opening are there for studying women?
It’s crazy how we encourage more and more people to go to college, but don’t talk about how much debt people take on, or discuss what they are majoring in.
Any degree with the word “studies” in it pretty much seals your fate employment-wise.
I know a guy who has a doctorate in philosophy who is a top stock analyst for a brokerage house.
I myself studied Latin and Greek, and ended up in IT as a C++ programmer.
Excellent points. Philosophy isn’t a practical course and women’s studies just indulges the emotionally immature who have either daddy issues or had one too many boyfriends and have ended up bitter and alienated and want to hold someone else responsible for their mistakes and bad choices.
Too many idiots go to university to study things that have nothing to do with the reality that in the end, they do have to end up making a living. Stupidly they don’t think to end up being mature. This is another reason I’m against going to university right away after high school.
If those peeps are too stupid to figure it out going in, too bad for them. There should be at least some minimum amount of analysis by the student as to what area to get degreed. This analysis should include projected jobs and need for that degree on the backside. If no analysis, or if some, and still choose stupidly, no tears shed for them.
The only job for philosophy majors is to become a philosophy professor and make more philosophy majors... a trick any bacteria has mastered.
Knowing that is why I stopped with a BA in philosophy. I've owned my own business, and worked in corrections, and now specialize in radiation effects testing.
“How many job opening are there for philosophers?”
Let me think about that for a while.....
I took a philosophy minor because I found it interesting.
Because they like it.
Why do they like it?
For one, it feeds their ego.
How does it feed their ego?
They get to hang out with people who do things like they do.
That seems practical enough, don't you think?
Yes, freedom of association.
So the question is, why do taxes go to pay for someone's hobby?
Because hobbies, if profitable, are taxable.
That's off-topic. I'd like to know what is useless. If you want to do something useless, is there a law against that?
Yes, there can be. You have to play by the rules of the community.
Not the community of philosophers?
Right, the rules of the world community.
Are there other reasons for majoring in philosophy?
Sure, a thousand and one. Sometimes its a way to exercise a love of wisdom.
Is that useless?
The love of wisdom is very worthwhile. More precious than rubies. But it can be done without a degree.
I see. That must be why obtaining a degree becomes more a practical requirement for access to power, honor, and wealth. These are not the supreme reason why we should do things.
That depends on your ego.
What's an ego?
It's an word used by people that want to rid themselves of the idea of human nature.