by JonjoShelvey » Sat May 10, 2014 3:43 am
before i quit my job i never saw myself going to college. it seemed like a waste of time with this hopefully successful business on the horizon. quickly things went south and the business seemed more like an unlikely dream than reality. My dreams were crushed. all i wanted to do was work with my father and make extremely money doing stuff we were both interested in.
now it's been about 8 months of sitting around doing nothing and becoming more and more dissatisfied with myself. becoming an electrician seemed like a good idea to me as my grandpa's family has owned a company doing that for years. i romanticized the life of a manual laborer, working with your hands all day and not doing any of that intellectual bullshit that i had a reactionary distaste for after realizing i was never as smart as i thought i was.
since sort of turning away from that viewpoint i came to the realization that i want to study philosophy. years ago me and my best friend, who is five years older than me, used to hang out and talk about the philosophy he had been learning about during his schooling. ever since then i have had an interest in it although i've never pursued it.
uhh my point is do/have any of you studied philosophy academically? did you like it?