{"id":62977,"date":"2015-05-05T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977///wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//oglethorpe.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//news/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//graduating-with-a-philosophy-degree-theres-more-than-starbucks-in-your-future-syracuse-com/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:37:30","slug":"graduating-with-a-philosophy-degree-theres-more-than-starbucks-in-your-future-syracuse-com","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977///wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//oglethorpe.edu/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//news/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//graduating-with-a-philosophy-degree-theres-more-than-starbucks-in-your-future-syracuse-com/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977//","title":{"rendered":"Graduating with a philosophy degree? There’s more than Starbucks in your future | Syracuse.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Marnie Eisenstadt/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/n There is a joke philosophy professors roll their eyes at: What do you do with a philosophy degree?/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/n The punchline: Work at Starbucks./wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/n But the philosophers are quietly having the last laugh. An analysis of average salaries/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/u00a0by degree shows that by mid-career, graduates with degrees in philosophy can make/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/u00a0a solid living: $84,000 after a decade in the workforce./wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/n They aren’t making that kind of money pondering the afterlife or morality. It’s their background in critical thinking and creative problem solving that’s paying off and leading to jobs in the business world, said Lydia Frank, senior director of marketing/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/u00a0and content at Payscale, the company that does the earning potential analysis./wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/n/wp-json/wp/v2/news/62977/n