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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
It's not like 18-21 yr. olds understand what it means to pay $400-$1000 a month for many years after they graduate. I sure didn't know what that kind of money was back then. And I had a pretty slow career start, at least earning-wise, even after finishing undergrad in 3.5 yrs. We all know people who spent many years finding themselves in undergrad, studying philosophy or English, never intending to become teachers, but also never stopping to think about the last time they saw a job ad for a philosopher or English speaker.
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Some skills gained from a Philosophy degree below. Other than just being a "philosopher". Most job ads ask for skills. You don't see job ads asking for a business person, or engineer, you seem them asking for skills
. Its how you sell your education and the skills you have acquired. Not everyone goes into an art's program to "find themselves"
. Clearly you haven't actually studied philosophy, and assume we all just contemplate existence all day lol...
1. Articulacy in accurately identifying underlying issues in all kinds of debate.
2. Logical thinking and presentation in the analysis and formulation of complex and controversial problems.
3. Sensitivity in interpretation of thoughts and ideas drawn from both history and current trends.
4. Clarity and rigour in the critical assessment of arguments presented in such thoughts and ideas.
5. Ability to use and criticise specialised philosophical terminology.
6. Ability to abstract, analyse and construct sound arguments and to identify logical inconsistency.
7. Ability to recognise methodological errors, rhetorical devices, unexamined conventional wisdom, unnoticed assumptions, vagueness and superficiality.
8. Ability to move between general and appropriately detailed discussion, providing examples to support or challenge a position, and distinguishing relevant and irrelevant considerations.
9. Ability to consider unfamiliar ideas and ways of thinking, and to examine presuppositions and methods critically within the discipline itself.
10. Develop the ability to reflect clearly and critically on oral and written sources, employing powers of imagination as well as analysis.
11. To remember relevant material and bring it to mind when relevant.
12. To construct convincing arguments in the evaluation of information.
13. To present, in both oral and written forms, a clear and well-structured assessment of relevant considerations.
14. Ability to comprehend and develop intricate concepts in an open ended way which involves an understanding of purpose and consequences.
Maybe if people didn't have such ignorant perceptions of certain degree's other than a degree from engineering, "business", or medical, students wouldn't be left scrambling for any sort of job to pay off student debt. It's those kind of generalizations that have negatively impacted the perceived value of many degree's.
How about a bioethicist? That is a job ad quite literally asking for an Ethical Philosopher.