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>> Ah, but do you ask them why they want to get a graduate degree in
>> philosophy? I would caution all and sundry that your motives had best not
>> include making a living as a philosopher.
> 
>Well, even if I forget to give that particular speech, the APA won't.  It 
>still asks graduate departments to send to all applicants that dreary & 
>discouraging form letter that says, roughly, "You think you're gonna get a 
>JOB in philosophy?  HA Ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaha......"  So if a student 
>applies to 10 schools, 10 copies of that letter show up.  Blah!  I'm 
>surprised ANYONE ever
>decides to go to grad school in philosophy.
>
>  For every philosophy Ph.D. who is
>> successful at doing this (like our very own Dr. Ruth), there are dozens who
>> must resign themselves to lesser lives, toiling among the masses (such as
>> your humble correspondent). 

I invite email or posts on the following topic:
philosophy students (with or without degrees, graduate or undergraduate)
who drop out and live the frugal lifestyle of the classical philosophers --
or something vaguely similar. Surely the PhD's on this newsgroup have
respected friends, former colleagues and students or fellow-students, who
refused "resignation" to any particular social niche and went away to sleep 
on the beach at Key Largo, reading Putnam and watching the sun set, or started
a commune/homestead/truck farm in New Mexico, or something. I am eager to hear 
of anyone who has done such a thing. How do you know them, and how are
they doing?


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