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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by mistrial9 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:53PM (#37784752)
engineer: do you need bonded insurance on this project? architect: do you want common design themes in the parts of this project? Philosopher: would you like frys with your burger sir?
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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by footy on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:13PM (#37786504)
Philosophy is actually one of the majors with highest career earnings out of college.

Also anecdotally, I know several people who majored in philosophy (one with a CS minor) and they all do quite well. I'm in my mid 30s and the people I'm talking about are between 28ish and 45.

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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by mistrial9 on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:50PM (#37794648)
> Philosophy is actually one of the majors with highest career earnings out of college.

citation please!

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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by pedrosorio on Friday October 06, 2023 @05:18PM (#37796548)
I don't know about a philosophy. But people with graduate degrees in Zoology seems to be doing well:

https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/valueofcollegemajors/

For some reason it groups "philosophy and religious studies" and the latter might not lead to very high paying careers, so it's hard to tell what that means for "just" philosophy.

The report [0] has them below the median of all "humanities and liberal arts" majors.

[0] https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/The-Economic-V...

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Re:I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot by footy on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:14AM (#37843071)
I was away for Thanksgiving

Not sure if you'll still find this relevant, but here's a source I had saved where you can see philosophy is in the highest third:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/which-college-degrees...

And a now-somewhat-broken 538 article: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/philosophers-dont-get-m...

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