Day 871 of 1000
Betty Blonde #37 – 09/05/2008
Betty Blonde #37
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Here is an article on how hard it is for a new PhD to get a tenure track position.  I noticed on Wikipedia, the author of the article got her undergraduate degree in English Literature.  There are too many people who have their PhD’s in the humanities.  If they do not hit the lottery and get a tenure track position, the likelihood is very high they will end up in the fast food industry.  I loved the comment left by someone with the moniker Belisarius85 that express my thoughts very well on the subject:

People with PhDs in useful fields are doing fine. They can largely get jobs in the private sector that pay well.

People with PhDs in the liberal arts or humanities are suffering, but there are way too many of them for the job market anyways. Theoretically, these are bright people. They should have known that they weren’t likely to get a job in academia from the get-go.