Do you like learning philosophy? Or do you just want to be a good philosopher? Do you just want the results you imagine getting from philosophy, such as winning more arguments, having innovative ideas, having more of your solutions to problems actually work, impressing people with your cleverness, being rational, or being less biased?
I think a lot of people have the idea that their education is a means to an end. They think that their education and what they end up doing is very different. I think this applies to some fields kinda. I don’t know much about engineering but from the bits I picked up you don’t do much of any actual engineering in most engineering programs. So to an engineer it could seem that school is the part where you have to go through math problems, science lectures, etc. to be able to do cool stuff with planes (if you’re an aerospace engineer), even if you need math and science concepts when you’re working as an engineer.
I think a good number of careers are like that. Business classes are probably different from the social dynamic reality of how most businesses run themselves. Doctors learn a bunch of medical facts during medical school which is very different from how they practice medicine when becoming a doctor.
Hmm. While I think legal work is different from law school, I’ve heard law school is accurate in some respects to the practice. You spend a lot of time reading, analyzing, and writing about the law in law school apparently. It will vary here and there but most of the legal field involves reading, analyzing, and writing. Neat.
Yes, compared to philosophy, many other fields have a larger difference between the learning and doing phases.