My Philosophical Side....

I'm feeling extremely philosophical today. My goal is to be a philosophy professor and I get quite frustrated sometimes with the unstable job market, dwindling interest in philosophy as a discipline, and the overall impracticality of it. However, when I get confronted with a philosophical issue, the wheels in my mind start turning. No other discipline (to me) gets the intellect tingling and working vigorously like philosophy. When one reaches that point of aporia-- which is frustrating to some--it's euphoric to me. Strange, I know. But I love philosophy. She's like that ex-boyfriend.....there's no real reason why you should do him, but when you do, it feels ohhhh soooo good.