Is Philosophy Open to Everyone?

You've been a professional philosopher for a number of years and you've now retired from that. Looking back at what you did, do you think there is a special value attached to committing yourself to a job as a philosopher or is philosophy perhaps open to everybody at some level? Both I think. It's not as if it were something that one can avoid or not be concerned with. Though you can of course avoid thinking about it. So philosophy is something that we're in. Not necessarily philosophy as the process of thought. And in the sense of these words isn't it that can denote both the process of thinking and the result?"