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Old 12.16.2008, 02:59 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by Glice
Well, I was the same when I was coming out of the same qualification he's getting. It's pretty natural, stage-fright, suddenly realising that this thing that you've devoted years of your life to that you're passionate and, hopefully, good at, is not particularly vocational. It was about three crappy, short-term jobs in that I realised that half the struggle in any job is convincing people that you're right, which philosophy is very, very good for. It's also good for mitigating office-tension, something that a jumped-up business BA isn't going to have.
I never heard anyone using philosophical concepts to give the impression to others at work that they're right, and I work in a pretty 'arty' establishment, where you'd think that sort of practice should be thriving.
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