<p>If you are getting a PhD for job security you are probably going to not even be admitted into a PhD program (it will probably show when you’re applying) and if you do, whatever the person is doing, they will probably hate it.</p>
<p>I think why the job market sucks for PhDs is the chances of getting a teaching position is so slim (why you see Harvard/Princeton/ Yale etc PhDs teaching at no name Liberal Arts colleges) and you have pretty much shot yourself out of all entry level positions that are needed for career advancement. The only PhDs I know of that usually have decent employment are Econ, Stats and CS, but I can’t really comment on that except what I’ve seen. </p>
<p>At the same time, people think doing or majoring in certain things are auto employment/high pay (CS, Business, “pre-med”, “engineering”), but those people will face the same weeding out. I think the best thing to do while going to a university is to obtain knowledge in things that you wouldn’t be able to really learn on your own and mix it with something practical at the same time. </p>
<p>If you are majoring in humanities and are passionate enough about it, you will probably work something out once you graduate. I’ve seen it go both ways, you could do engineering and get stuck in a 50k-60k a year job with minimal advancement at some defense firm, or have a humanities degree and end up working at Goldman Sachs. I think the gap between humanities vs the sciences is really non existent. Of course you’re not going to go into EE/hardware design with an English degree etc. </p>
<p>Just my opinion. </p>