Something you're not likely to see from me again soon

[Justin Schwartz]

Ah, yes. I recall the conversations well. My favorite was on a bus: Pretty 
girl: What do you do? Me (hopefully): I'm a philosopher. PG: Philosophy!!?? 
I thought that went out with the Greeks and the Romans!  Or my sister the 
carpenter, when I offered (after passing the bar) to exchange work in kind. 
"But what can you do that I would need?" --jks


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> >>PS. I have a degree in philosophy.
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> >US, or Polish? Where from? Just curious.
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>Polish, from a Catholic liberal arts college (philsophy depts at state
>colleges were dismantled after the March 1968 student revolt).  Wrote
>thesis about modes of cognition in Spinoza.  But my defection to the US
>prompted my defection to sociology, partly as a result of the encountered
>attutudes exemplified by the following exchange:
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>Sponsoring organization's rep: "What is your occupation?"
>Me: "I have a degree in philosophy."
>Sponsoring organization's rep (after a long pause): "But what can you
>actually do?"
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>wojtek
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