What is a career for a philosopher?

Most philosophers these days become professors of philosophy. There aren't any other jobs that would need a degree in philosophy. As a professor, you would teach, but you would also be a philosopher, studying others' works and writing your own.

Depending on the area of philosophy you specialize in (logic, ethics, aesthetics, natural philosophy, religious philosophy), you could use your philosophy background in these careers:

think tank person

public policymaker

law

art consulting

science research

counseling (using dialectic as a method)

ministry

even business

You'd probably need to double-major in philosophy and something else or get a graduate degree for some of these. But many jobs are open to anyone with any degree, so you could major in philosophy and work in business, say.

Now, if you just want a job in philosophy without a degree, any job should do. You can develop a philosophy of humility while scrubbing toilets or or ethics in sales or of living in the moment while working in fast food.

finishing high school is required to get into a uni so you'll need to get through that first.

and reading what you wrote... that you are interested in philosophy yet have not figured out how those people who study it make money and already call yourself a thinker, makes me think that you are not that interested at all and haven't read that much. plus dropping out of high school, eh... are you one of those who think that everyone is a philosopher and no education is required to be one? then better listen to your nana.

you won't make money by ''a book or a teacher''. even philosophers who write books have other jobs so that they don't die of starvation and poverty. PhD's usually become professors in unis, write, people with lesser degrees go for law (they must get other addittional degrees for this), politics, translating, private businesses (I know quite a few of this kind), work in governments, few get the rare positions of bio ethicists etc. etc.

It could be almost anything, because you don't get a degree in 'philosophy'; you get it in a specific field of philosophy:

"ethics (moral conduct), metaphysics (reality), epistemology (knowledge), aesthetics (art)

"Many career postings ask for candidates with a liberal arts or humanities degree. In this case, a philosophy degree is advantageous because of the abstract reasoning and research background it provides. You might be suited for a career in..............."

http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-edu%E2%80%A6

A PhD. is a Doctorate of Philosophy, which can cover nearly any subject in academia. The officers of the space shuttles were almost all PhDs--engineering, astrophysics, biology, etc.

Well writing defenetly os an option. Weather you are potraying your ideas through fiction or literaly just writing them down, ir could be writing a song, poetry or just a book but it is a good type of job if you enjoy doimg that and there are plenty of ways to self publish and a bunch of websigjts that you can sell your ebook at. I would just google ebook publishing websights (what would we do without the inernet?) And see what comes up.

i have a friend who is philosophy at Uni. he's now working as a councillor.