Asked & Answered~243

...I knew it going in ...in 12 lines

The Campus Grind

"I graduate with a Masters in Philosophy next semester, Ryan,

and I don't have a clue what I want to do."

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" ...Will you teach philosophy, Anita? Apply to a thinktank? 

To the Management Trainee program at Walmart, McDonald's?" 

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"Haha, very funny! Maybe a thinktank in 30 years when I've got real-life experience. 

But teaching--big yawn--is really the only viable option now, isn't it?"

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"It's ironic, that in these times when an expertise in philosophy could 

actually contribute to the national discourse, it's undervalued."

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"It always has been. I knew that going in."

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" ...Then, why philosophy?"

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"I'm a romantic. It translates as the love of wisdom in ancient Greek."

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"Too bad it doesn't love you back in modern McAmerica."

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Reviews

[Soren]

It didn't in ancient Greece either ask Socrates. A fun read friend.

[JD Major]

... Ah, right, he was hemlocked! :)