You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector . . .They expect results. We rushed to tell the king, only to find that the king didn't want to know. But it's falling anyway. The job market in the humanities has crashed, it has remained crashed, and we don't foresee it bouncing back any time soon.
Pundits warn of a breakdown of the tenure system.
Indeed, the crisis is now so severe that the Modern Language Association has issued a report suggesting that humanities departments begin to curtail their acceptance of incoming graduate students. A responsible move, but too little, too late. Check out the stats . So we've made our point. Despite what everyone has told you, a Ph.D. is NOT a useless degree.