Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Wednesday, February 13, 2013

What can I do with a Philosophy degree?

By Penelope Trivette


A major in a liberal arts field like philosophy helps you to understand the basic components of critical thinking, argumentation, communication, information management, design and planning, research and investigation, and management and administration.

These basic abilities offer a wide range of reasoning, researching, planning, and communication tools that a graduate with a philosophy degree can use to communicate, problem-solve, and argue effectively irrespective of what field they decide to enter after graduation.

In reality, one of the most important items to keep in mind about this particular skillset is that in most cases it is readily transferrable, which means that it could benefit philosophy graduates all through their careers and enable them to make career transitions if necessary.

Philosophy majors have the training and educational background they require to be adaptive and continue learning new capabilities as they advance within a career or transition to a different one.

This can be particularly helpful because there is no doubt that technological and scientific progress will need employees to continue learning new abilities throughout their working careers if they wish to advance, or even just remain in their current job.

The education you receive as part of the undergraduate training in philosophy delivers valuable preparation for the nearly constant need to learn more and to acquire new skills, or to apply old abilities to novel challenges and tasks.

In short, a liberal arts degree like a philosophy degree is very important since it not merely provides you with very generally applicable intellectual skills, but also develops your ability to easily and effectively acquire the particular skills you will need to know for your 1st job, and then for whatever subsequent jobs or careers you may pursue.

As a result, university graduates who have received a bachelor's degree in philosophy might find themselves employed in a varied selection of professions, like administration and management in the corporate and academic sectors, and in the staffing, public policy, nonprofit, and advertising fields.

Other common choices for philosophy graduates include business careers in management, sales, consulting, public relations, fund raising, systems analysis, marketing, and banking.

And government positions working for a congressional staff member, federal agencies and bureaus, state and local governments, the United Nations, foreign service agencies, and cultural affairs organizations are additional possibilities.

Certainly one of the time-honored professional fields for philosophy majors is the publishing sector, where philosophy students could possibly find themselves employed as anything from a freelance writer to a journalist, manager or publisher, depending on their particular preferences and talents.

Needless to say, a bachelor's degree in philosophy is also good training for an advanced degree in business, medicine, or law, as well as in education, history, literature, and in some cases seminary studies.

Success in law school is dependent on skills like the capability to read and analyze complicated written legal opinions to ascertain the main points, and to logically and rationally argue one's findings, all of which are skills that philosophy majors are very acquainted with.

And medical school students need to be able to critically evaluate a patient's medical history, analyze symptoms and complaints, and use reasoning to reach an appropriate diagnosis and remedy.

So if you're a philosophy graduate, do not stress yourself if you don't see a clear professional path ahead of you like an accounting or engineering student may have, and remember that you are gaining important and employable abilities that can provide you with a flexibility that can serve you well all through your working career.




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