[Tijeras_Slim]

Philosophy major here. I’ll be the first to admit that the only thing a philosophy major can do is get a pHD and teach philosophy. (Good luck finding a job) Basically making more philosophy majors. Self replication is a trick most bacteria have mastered.

Instead I had my own retail business, worked as head of security in a mental ward of a prison (still better than being a college professor!), and now radiation effects testing.

Hey, I’d take a cabbie with a fondness for the British empiricists over a Somali any day.

[eastforker]

And it all depends on what kind of welder you are. If you are just a junkiron, (structural welder), you aren’t making much more than a basic welder. However, if you can weld pipe and/or do exotics, you wage scale goes way up.

[antidisestablishment]

Philosophy majors aren’t studying British empiricism today. Today’s courses would more likely be studying diversity as a philosophy.

[Paine in the Neck]

I'm seeing a book in your future - Zen and the Art of Neutron Bombardment ;^}

[9YearLurker]

That’s not actually the case at all.

As you likely know, philosophy majors are on average among the very brightest of all college majors. They end up making good money because they are smart and at least reasonably willing to play the game—as evidenced by being college grads.

Only narrow thinking assumes that philosophy majors aren’t successful or “using their degrees” unless they end up as college philosophy professors (who are actually a fairly dysfunctional group).

[Joe 6-pack]

'I’ll be the first to admit that the only thing a philosophy major can do is get a pHD and teach philosophy.'

I would wager a good percentage of ordained ministers/priests/clerics started out as Philosophy majors at the undergraduate level before going to seminary or divinity school...