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I am considering going to grad school for philosophy

I am considering going to graduate school for philosophy. I have my Bachelor’s in math, which, as a career, would seem to offer fine job prospects, but I really don’t care much about mathematical problems. I like the argumentation aspect, writing proofs, etc., even though it was mainly an applied math school and that element wasn’t emphasized as much. Even so, I have been doing independent study and have been getting tutored by one of my former professors in some abstract algebra stuff bc it was what I was most interested in, and I still really don’t see myself doing this.

I have always wanted to study philosophy. I think about philosophical problems most of the day, and I feel my brain is “wired” for it. I love argumentation, working with concepts, and I am pretty open to reading and thoughtfully considering a diverse range of perspectives on any topic of interest, from both the analytic or continental traditions. Some concerns I have are:
1. Getting and keeping jobs
2. Having social anxiety and OCD (relevantly, with existential, perfectionism, and religious themes). I have been through therapy for this and am on medication, albeit I am still figuring the latter part out. I would say that I find myself thinking on philosophical topics not as a compulsion anymore but because I genuinely like it. Still, I do have a bit of concern over this— that it might be a triggering situation for this to become my career path. On the other hand, maybe that’s a good thing. And it was, in some ways, a form of philosophical boot camp. And as for social anxiety, that’s much better too, but it rears its head again every once and a while, especially in public speaking settings.
3. My bachelor’s is not in philosophy, albeit mathematics is not unrelated to philosophy (through it I have experience with logic including symbolic logic). However, my primary areas of interest concern human endeavors (i.e. ethics, aesthetics, action theory, free will, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, mainly). I would say philosophy of mathematics, logic, and other math-adjacent areas do interest me as well, but not as much as the others and more to the extent that they have implications for the fields previously mentioned.

Any considerations I should have when looking into studying philosophy in grad school? Any advice on applying for schools, especially as a math major? “Don’t do it” is also welcome advice, provided you be sufficiently specific.
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Have you thought about how the social anxiety stuff may affect things like presenting in seminar, doing oral defenses, giving talks, and then later teaching and doing team work with colleagues?  You wouldn’t be the first socially anxious phil student, but there can be rather a lot of public speaking and high stakes performance.