Concerned about the job market? We're putting together a session (or two) on that! In the meantime, check out "Staying Positive" about the transferable skills of a Ph.D.:

"The fact remains that universities and colleges are still admitting graduate students to study history and are still training them to read, research, and write to a very high standard. Graduate students still get teaching experience, we still learn how to organize our time effectively, how to argue cogently and coherently and to condense vast amounts of information into digestible bites fit for any palate. We also learn to speak foreign languages."