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[quote=Anonymous]I'm late to this discussion and was a philosophy major myself. Recently found, to my surprise, that at least 3 other parents in my child's class (well-known DC private school) were also philosophy majors. We have become 2 very well-paid lawyers, one professor and think tank person (in a field other than philosophy), and one who works in international finance. We all seem to have done pretty well for ourselves and yes, we enjoy chatting about Kant and Derrida.

Will I encourage my child to study philosophy? Sure, but in conjunction with something that's either more directly marketable or that at least gives him/her a bit of an employment hook, e.g., another language. FWIW, my spouse was also a liberal arts major and picked up programming independently; is now a high level tech writer. Of the STEM areas, computer programming is quite easy for a very motivated person to pick up on his/her own. (I make no similar claim about bench science or higher level mathematics.) My personal opinion is that there's no need to start down a vocational track at age 17/18 as long as you are smart, creative, ambitious.[/quote]

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