I majored in philosophy, and I suppose it must have gotten me to where I am today, since I am in grad school for philosophy. Not a PhD though, thank god, just a Master’s. I say thank god because I don’t think I’m cut out to be a teacher. My MA will actually be in philosophy with a concentration in psychoanalysis.
I’m not sure yet if I regret doing the whole philosophy thing or not. I love having learned it for its own sake, but because I’m not settled yet on what to do next, it remains to be seen if it’ll be more useful than another major would’ve been. I do regret the MA, because the only thing it’s good for is continuing in academia. I wish I’d gone for an MSW instead – my tentative plan for what to do next is to train to be a psychotherapist. Then again, I might not have discovered I want to do that unless I had this experience studying psychoanalysis over the past few years.