@dfbdfb <and on="" the="" non-humanities="" side,="" academic="" job="" market="" in="" life="" sciences="" had="" crashed="" by="" mid-1990s,="" again="" to="" surprise="" of="" lots="" people="" those="" fields.="">
Life-Science PhDs had far more flexibility on job market. Their skills are versatile. Pharmacological industry, medicine, education, patents, clinical work, forensics, biostatistics, ecology, government work related to clinical trials or ecology, regulatory, patents, intellectual property.
What would a Ph.D in linguistics do? Education, marketing, advertising industry? What else?