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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]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.[/b] 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]

I double-majored in Philosophy and Spanish Literature.  For years I worked for an international company, using both languages.  Then I went to law school and now I practice international commercial law.

I did super-well on the LSATs.  It was just a series of Logic problems.

I still use problem-solving approaches I learned in Logic class in my work.[/quote]

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