If the ability to analyze complex issues, to read, think, and communicate articulately are important to your chosen profession, then philosophy can help you achieve your professional goals. Many business and government leaders have degrees or strong backgrounds in philosophy. Philosophy is a traditional route to the study of law. In addition, people trained in philosophy are consultants and counselors in matters of medical, legal, business, and journalistic ethics. Philosophers study the impact of technology on our lives.
Philosophy can be very practical indeed.