Careers known to have been pursued by UMD graduates and faculty:

Become a lawyer
Become a judge
Write books
Work for Proctor and Gamble
Teach English in Japan
Teach at a Duluth-area junior college
Work for Pepsico
Join the U.S. Marine Corp.
Analyze data for various state governments in Twig, Minnesota
Go to grad school in French literature
Sell music synthesizers for R.A. Moog
Nanny
Become a deputy sheriff in Colorado
Work as a stock broker
Work as a math professor (at UMD and elsewhere)
Work as a college administrator
Work as a housewife and mother
Become a poet (T.S. Elliot, others)
Work as a clerk for the N.D. Supreme Court
Become a playwright
Teach K-12
Be a psychiatrist
Work as librarian
Become a political campaign worker
Become a minister
Work at the Natural Resource Research Institute
Be a dancer and choreographer
Cook in a Grand Marais restaurant
Become a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives
Be a social worker
Work in physical therapy
Be philosophical about whatever you do
Work as a Computer Science professor (at UMD and elsewhere)

Other careers pursued by philosophy graduates:

Become a stand-up comedian (Steve Martin)
Run a tropical fish store
Go to Medical School
Become the Pope
Work on a Hospital Ethics review board
Design and produce word processor software (Nota Bene)
Write, direct and star in films (Woody Allen)
Own and run the largest Minnesota Optical company
Run a dry cleaning business
Work for a startup computer company in Twin Cities
Work in advertising
Work as a computer salesman
Do casino surveillance
Do computer weather forecasting
Become a military strategy consultant to Pentagon
Write and act in television and film comedy (various Monty Python members)
Become an Executive at the National Endowment for Humanities
Become a movie star (Harrison Ford)
Work as a Psychologist
Become the Chief of Staff for a U.S. Senator
Computer programmer
Be a researcher in the Library of Congress
Work in real estate
Work as a publisher's representative
Work as the U.S. Secretary of Education (Wm. Bennett)
Publish a magazine