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A major in philosophy can help you get a job! The skills of reasoning, communication and understanding others are helpful in getting and keeping a wide variety of jobs. Employers like employees who can solve problems imaginatively and who can communicate well with them, with fellow-workers and with customers or clients.
To see what jobs are available go to:
Another Source for Philosophy Jobs
Yet Another Source for Philosophy Jobs
A Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (including jobs)
Philosophical Practice and Counseling
American Philosophical Practitioners Association
Here is some information about how average salaries for people with undergraduate philosophy degrees compare with average salaries for people with other degrees. The average mid-career salary for people with undergraduate philosophy degrees, for example, compares favorably with many of those in careers considered to be well paid:
*Philosophers left to right: Aristotle, Alain Locke, John Locke, Julia Kristeva, Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry Thoreau