Thank god for CODs . <| sep |> The enemy of my enemy . <| sep |> I don ' t think you should be too concerned about your difficulties with reading philosophical texts , for the following reasons 1 . You are pretty young , so your mind is not fully developed , which makes it harder for you to understand abstract ideas . I tried to read Aristotle when I was a bit younger than you are and I could not make heads or tails of what he was saying . Nowadays I can read similar texts with much less difficulty . 2 . You don ' t really have any background knowledge about philosophy , which would make it very , very hard to understand certain texts . 3 . Some philosophical texts are just that difficult for everyone . I had a moral psychology class where the professor told us up front that we would probably have to spend four hours reading each assignment , and then we would probably have to read it again . So , don ' t worry about not understanding things just yet . Now , should you major in philosophy ? That ' s a different question , and not one that anyone can likely give you a definitive answer to right now . All I can do is tell you some considerations that you need to take into account . First of all , philosophy majors have a very high unemployment rate compared to more traditionally practical majors like computer science . Some people will try to argue with this , but every study I have seen done on the issue has arrived at approximately the same conclusion philosophy majors have about a 10 % unemployment rate , compared to about 5 % for computer science . Philosophy always shows up on lists of the worst majors for your career , for this reason . However , that is not to say that majoring in philosophy is necessarily a bad decision . The average salary for philosophy majors rises faster over time than any other major , tied with mathematics , although their salary is never higher than the average salaries for certain STEM majors . On average , philosophy majors peak at about $ 80 , 000 per year , which is pretty good and higher than any other liberal arts major . In addition , philosophy majors do very , very well on the LSAT and a number of other tests for graduate school admission , so it might work out if you plan to go to graduate school or law school . Obviously , though , you have to get very good grades for this to work out . Apart from practical career stuff , you should keep in mind that philosophy is not the only interesting major . For example , I started out as a philosophy major and picked up a computer science major in addition , and I ' ve consistently found computer science fascinating . So , try a bunch of other stuff before you settle on a major . Good luck , let me know if you have any other questions .