What jobs can you actually get with a Philosophy degree?
I understand that for some jobs you don't even need a degree, and some it doesn't even matter what degree it is, as long as you have one. However, as someone who wants a Philosophy degree, I want to know how useful the degree really is. Will it take me anywhere? Will people view me differently?
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by mylevansI understand that for some jobs you don't even need a degree, and some it doesn't even matter what degree it is, as long as you have one. However, as someone who wants a Philosophy degree, I want to know how useful the degree really is. Will it take me anywhere? Will people view me differently?
Pretty much everything you can do with any other degree. So not careers that need vocational degrees, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, vet med, engineering, architecture, but pretty much anything else. Everything graduates with English, Art, History, Theology etc degrees can do.
It's not that some jobs don't need a degree, it's more the fact that very few careers need a specific degree. A degree is employer shorthand for a range of qualities that come through the university experience itself, rather than the subject matter - the ability to research, write to word counts and deadlines, present, use MSOffice, manage your time etc.
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