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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the feedback so far! I had wanted to be a professor when I first started my PhD, but academic jobs have become increasingly scarce and I'd also gotten married to someone whose job doesn't allow him to just move to a small college town.

I enjoy research and writing, and I'm quite good at these. I'm just not sure if these skills are enough outside of academia.[/quote]

OP, those jobs have been scarce for the past 30 years at least.  You should have seen this coming.  If you're not finished with the PhD, then don't spend another dime on it.  It's wasted time and money.  Your best bet is to try to get some kind of job - non-instructional perhaps - at a local college or university.  If you can find a way to get some experience in a university office of some kind while still in your program, that will be helpful.  Think some kind of academic services, writing center, language lab, educational IT, etc.  I don't know what your degree is in, so I can't give any advice beyond that.

You might have some luck outside of school if you are in an area related to govt or politics, but if it's something useless like literature or history, then you're sunk and need to consider a complete career change.  You can of course go to teaching in K-12, but after academia that will be a painful lesson in humility (and you'll have trouble in a setting where critical thinking is actively discouraged).  But it pays decently and there are jobs.  [/quote]

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