What do PHILOSOPHY MAJORS do after they GRADUATE??

Here is a very partial list of careers that Philosophy Majors have pursued.
(* indicates job known to have been done by UMD faculty or grad)

stand up comedy (Steve Martin)          nanny*
deputy sheriff in Colorado*             stock broker*
work in advertising                     run tropical fish store
teach K-12*                             psychiatrist*
librarian*                              pol. campaign worker*    
minister*                               computer salesman
lawyer*                                 casino surveillance
go to Medical School                    become judge*
clerk N.D. Supreme Court*               playwright*
computer weather forecasting            write books*
Natural Resource Research Institute*    become Pope
movie star (Harrison Ford)              etc. etc.
psychologist
Math  professor (at UMD and elsewhere)*
work on Hospital Ethics review boards
work for Proctor and Gamble*
chief of staff for U.S. Senator
college administrator*
housewife and mother*
poet (T.S. Eliot, others)*
write, direct, star in films (Woody Allen)
teach at Duluth area junior college*
computer programmer
work for Pepsico*
own and run largest Minnesota Optical company
researcher in Library of Congress
dancer/choreographer*
sell real estate
publisher's representative
staff member U.S. House of Representatives*
U.S. Secretary of Education (Wm. Bennett)
design and produce word processor software (Nota Bene)
publish a magazine
cook in a Grand Marais restaurant*
military strategy consultant to Pentagon
social worker*
teach English in Japan*
physical therapy*
sell music synthesizers for R.A. Moog*
join U.S. Marine Corp.*
television/film comedy (various Monty Python members)
executive at National Endowment for Humanities
Computer Science professor (at UMD and elsewhere)*
run dry cleaning business
work for startup computer company in Twin Cities
analyze data for various state governments in Twig, Minnesota*
go to grad school in French literature*
be philosophical about whatever they do (*?)

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