I regret majoring in Philosophy

[tuckgod]

Might as well run it up and get that doctorate.

fukk it...

 

[Edub]

I would too

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I mean do we blame the parents/teachers or the students when there's so much information available? I chose Civil Engineering off rip, I then switched to Construction Management which is just as good.

 

[Budda]

The major matters less than you do!

 

[gho3st]

Plato and Socrates were goat philosophers but they were POOR as shyt. Was that not a big enough sign?

 

[Clay Puppington]

Time for a second degree

Philosophy and learning the Classics can make you ruthless in business or law.

Right

Philosophy/Psychology seem like multiplier degrees. It'll make your main degree way more valuable since you have the thought process of humans

 

[BocaRear]

True. Another problem is that alot of people are clueless about marketing themselves

I remember my friend got a Biology degree, and wasn't getting jobs. He took 4 statistics courses, and I told him to put on his resume that he got a BioStatistics degree

He told me, he "considered that lying"

80% of the process in getting a job is stretching the truth, marketing and making yourself look like a desirable candidate.

It's not that hard to finesse yourself into a job and learn once you get the role.

Most jobs even have training and you get the hang of it in a couple weeks/months

I'm not saying straight up lie but stretch your experience/skills - that's business advertising 101.

 

[Lord_nikon]

No shyt,,,, I have seen white women like that become IT talent recruiters/recruiters for major corperations and temp corperations with degrees like that she will be okay

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

Philosophy was such a dope class

 

[Hijo de luna]

Philosophy was definitely the most interesting course in college. I knew better not to major in that shyt tho.

 

[UserNameless]

No shyt,,,, I have seen white women like that become IT talent recruiters/recruiters for major corperations and temp corperations with degrees like that she will be okay

Man listen ... hit up networking events and you’ll see that heavy . They tell what they do ... then tell what they graduated in and you’re like ... “how the hell you get into that position?!!!”






Social capital and self-marketing ability (on “paper” and in person) are so incredibly important for breaking in to the non highly specialized and non highly technical fields.

I will say “the woke movement” has prompted more lily white employers to give qualified negroes a look.

The one thing tho that’s tough to coach and develop is how to finesse the appearance of being a strong “cultural fit” ... the good ones can finesse their presentation enough to seem like even more than a “non threatening negro fit” and teeter into that space of being viewed as having some measure of a cultural fit, too ... that’ll get you a couple extra interviews . The rub is once you get to the final interview against two white and/or non white and/or white washed candidates and being able to beat them out as a “better and a more desirable cultural fit” ... which is rare .


Ultimately, you are who you are ... and you shouldn’t have to do that shyt honestly . All told , that job environment probably wasn’t “for you” anyway .

but that’s the game .

 

[MajesticLion]

The major isn’t the problem. She didn’t know what she wants to do with it.

if you’re gonna get a degree like that you either need to be ready to network like crazy or prepare to go to grad school... but still network too lol. and you need a plan.

Figure out what you want to be in life, then work backwards from there. It's not so hard. Getting into a major and not knowing what you want to do is like going on a road trip and not knowing the destination.

It's easier to say this in hindsight than when you're 13-16 and have to make long-term decisions for which you have no reference. That's where parents/good teachers should come in...and there are way too many gaps on both those fronts. It's one thing to have a dream, it's a different thing entirely to be taught(or learn the hard way on your own) how to live it.

Respect due to the truly selfless mentors out there, there's not nearly enough of them.