I was a philosophy major in college and when my hope of being able to teach it or write books about it fell through I wondered what I would ever be able to do with it. Philosophy, the queen of the sciences at one time. Philosophy was reduced to prattle, the analysis of language, even to pure aimless speculation, unable to reach the truth of things, but capable of a great pretense at doing so. But like education itself, so often caricatured as the learning of things useless for success in life, it has made life worthwhile and cleared away the confusion that so many suffer from.
Dead ends are much easier to recognize.
The foolish babble of most politics is transparent. Science can be distinguished from scientism. The variety of experience takes on a wonderful light, which otherwise is lost in the humdrum, inane, or insane. Philosophy is worthy to be an occupation. Even though philosophers themselves may have very little as far as other talents are concerned to make their way in the world.