>>Who, the cab drivers with PhD?
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>>The ones I know are "Dr," but a different sort of Doctor. And yes, they clear 100K driving taxis. In some quarters it is regarded as a scandal that these people, whose education is largely publicly funded, go to the 1st world and drive taxis. ;-)
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>Actually, I was thinking more of the 70s ( at my age it all sort of blurs ) when there were a lot of (apparently native-born) PhDs in philosophy, Medieval French Poetry, Ancient Greek Semiotics etc driving cabs in SF.

I know a bunch of young adults working on PhDs at the moment. A wide range of fields, from medieval English literature to neurobiology. That includes a couple in philosophy. Hmmm, is that redundant--a PhD in Philosophy. <g>

What I find more interesting is the number of kids I know who are studying music, theater or art, and hoping to have careers in the field. Both my kids have friends who are pursuing performance careers in New York now. One family we'e been friends with for years has four kids--one's a musician, two are artists, and the youngest is still in college, but planning to go into business.

Tamar