(November 6, 2017 at 2:34 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(November 5, 2017 at 11:45 am)Jehanne Wrote: There are, of course, only so many philosophers in the World today. If their survey was not a census, then it was at least a quorum.
I did work in Statistical Process Control for 14 years, have a MBA from a major university, etc.
There are plenty of philosophers out there and I have read many of their writings.
However, I have only one credentialled philosopher that is personally known to me. At the time, I was teaching computer hardware and he was teaching COBOL. (we are back in the early nineties). Nice guy, total pussycat and so forth, I got on really well with the guy.
But, I had to ask when I found out that his primary degree was in philosophy how he ended up teaching COBOL on a vax platform. His answer was ironically philosophical.
He said, "I discovered that a degree in philosophy is effectively useless. Most graduates will get no job. I found that a graduate degree in philosophy will not butter my toast or put milk on my cornflakes, it is frankly a recipe for poverty, so what I did was leverage my degree to get into something that was real world useful so I could pay my bills and live a reasonable life and fuck you dave you just made me do philosophy you bastage"
I programmed in COBOL for 15 years. I don't care what anyone says about it; it's a good programming language!
