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what are you planning to do with your English or philosophy major?

being serious, not taking the piss.

>> No.11515575

>>11515571
i have a job at my local paper, the pay is shit but its fun and i get to LARP as hemingway more

>> No.11515576

>>11515571
Law

>> No.11515579

>>11515575
would you be earning the same if u worked at like a starbucks.

>> No.11515587

>>11515571
Become a professor of philosophy so I can fukc hot young girls when I'm old.

>> No.11515590

>>11515571
Begging in a corner

>> No.11515591

>>11515579
i barely count as middle class and it's a really easy job

>> No.11515679

>>11515571
Law.
I plan on living like a poor person until I'm 35 so I can buy a comfy midwestern ranch, retire early, and sell my crops at a local farmer's market.

>> No.11515692
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11515692

Academia is the end goal but I really have no idea if we’re speaking realistically. I’m also majoring in neuroscience so I can always fall back on that I guess...

>> No.11515700

Classics degree but I'm joining the army. Russia has been on my mind a lot

>> No.11515721

>>11515571
English (creative writing) graduate here, I went to a coding camp and got a job as a webdev after college. Still awkward having to explain that I was an English major in interviews. Definitely lost a couple opportunities because of it.

I don't regret it though. I'm honestly considering applying for a fully-funded MFA program if I get some stuff published in larger magazines.

>> No.11515722

>>11515571
I’m a NEET. Before that I was Quality Assurance. Traveled overseas quite a bit.
NEETdom has been illuminating and even edifying, but I’m slowly descending into disconnect from daily life.

>> No.11515811

>>11515722
i work and im also descending into disconnect

>> No.11515841

>>11515571
Is it possible to study philosophy in postgrad when your undergrad was English?

>> No.11515855

>>11515841
idk i've never went to college.

>> No.11515861

>>11515576
This

>> No.11515891

>>11515571
I'm going to be a copywriter until I save up for grad school. After that, I'd like to become a college professor.

>> No.11515924

>>11515571
I wonder what David would have thought about people meming about his suicide

>> No.11515928

>>11515924
ill tell you what hes thinking now.

n o t h i n g

>> No.11515943

>>11515571
Academics.

>> No.11516087

>>11515924
Does it really matter? Sincerity is dead.

>> No.11517614

>>11515943
>>11515576
These

>> No.11517667

>>11515571
dont have any plans im just doing an english degree because it is something i enjoy, i started with stem but i got bored with it. ill take any job that comes afterwards if im lucky the finance chads in my family will get me a cozy office job since im close with my family if not i wouldnt mind working as a delivery boy or something i dont care too much about what i do as long as i am reading, liftin, working on my art, and watching anime (no bully plz). most careers seem really boring to me though and the army has been something ive been thinking about, but maybe im just romanticizing it.

>> No.11517683

>>11515841
Yep. Just have to prove you can do it. Usually you would have to write things to get in postgrad anyway. Try to write a philosophical essay of some kind, usually unis will be looking for at least one essay of yours. If you could get it published, it'd be great, but you'd have to know what to write and who would be an expert on it. You could always just submit it to some journal.

Also, do you know what the trends are in philosophy atm, specifically in your country or country you're going to apply in? You should know if you're even considering postgrad in philosophy, really...

>> No.11517695

K-5 teacher for three years then going to apply for literacy studies PhD programs :)

>> No.11517718

Isn't academia a kinda poisonous career? You go to school for something so you teach the same thing to those people.

I am deciding on my major, and I want to major in history and philosophy but if my end goal is to be a professor, I will probably be teaching to people in a less prestigious university, so they can learn how to teach it in an even less prestigious university, and the end result are those people with 60k debt and a humanities degree. It seems toxic and immoral to me. If I go try to be a writer or if we lived in an age of prey commercialized education, I would do it.

>> No.11517893

Well I like writing....

>> No.11518042

>implying I don't dual wield
STEM masterrace (CS) reporting in. It drives litfags absolutely insane when they find out my scansion's better than theirs and I know more about Augustan literature than they do

>> No.11518062

>STEM
>CS
every time lmao

>> No.11518109

>>11518042
How the fuck do you deal with all of the concentrated autism in your CS classes. God my coding class was awful.

>> No.11518159

>>11518109
>go to lecture
>listen to lecturer
>go home
>do work
Not hard.

>> No.11518391

>>11515679
Patrician plan

>> No.11518437

>>11518042
REEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.11518460

Janitor unironically. Sweep a bit, chill in your office for hours on end reading.

>> No.11518503

Got a BA in both of these, i'm a lawyer now.

>> No.11518971

>>11517683
Thanks. I'm currently doing an English undergrad and just want to know that an academic career in philosophy can still be believable.

>> No.11519124

>>11517718
Could be true if you’ve taken everything you’ve been taught 100 percent seriously. Teachers are people with opinions and therefore have their own take on everything. Everyone in my faculty are passionate about what they teach and don’t mindlessly parrot what others have told them

t. Academic

>> No.11520118

>>11515571
Everything.

>> No.11520279

>>11518460
huh, can't tell if based or retarded

>> No.11520324

>>11515571
>what are you planning to do with your degree in "taking things easy" or "not working hard"
exactly that

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>>11520324