“...you are aware that most philosophy courses are only a few courses removed from a Mathematics degree, right?”
One of my buds is a mathamatics professor and I’ll ask you the same question I asked him when he started so many years ago.
Besides teaching, what other careers are available out there for that degree?
Philosophy may be a worthy course of study, but the market for that degree is extremely limited. You’re basically waiting for a teacher somewhere to retire or die - and then you’re competing with people with their phd’s for that open position. An undergraduate degree in Philosophy, and mathematics for that matter, may not be a BS degree, but they are only good in an acedemic sense and limited at that. Get the phd or minor in that dicipline.
> Besides teaching, what other careers are available out there for that degree?
http://philosophy.unc.edu/undergraduate-program/why-major-in-philosophy
and
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/phil/alumni/why
answer that a little bit — technical writers (explaining in plain English technical and scientific ideas) is perhaps one of the big things that’s needed in my field [computer science] — because a *lot* of documentation is decidedly subpar.
USE the math in a field that needs it: engineering of some type