http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/ed...hilosophy.html Quote:
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Barry Loewer, the department chairman, said that Rutgers started building its philosophy program in the late 1980s, when the field was branching into new research areas like cognitive science and becoming more interdisciplinary. He said that many students have double-majored in philosophy and, say, psychology or economics, in recent years, and go on to become doctors, lawyers, writers, investment bankers and even commodities traders.
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So perhaps it's not so much a live-in-a-box post-undergraduate if you can market yourself well. What do you think? I'm a history major and the question has worried me a bit - I'm clueless about what I want to do in the future and I figured I could go with follow-your-passion and whatnot. I've spoken to a few companies like Pricewaterhouse-Cooper and am going to a seminar on selling yourself as a humanities major in the business world... I retain some skepticism . . . and then the role of internships come into play . . . but how do you get that when you're at a disadvantage to business and economics majors? Practical majors?