The job market is not very good in the sense that there's always many more people who want to be professors than there are jobs for professors. But it doesn't reflect some flaw in the system or anything like that. The job market for ph ds is much better than the job market for nba basket ball players. So i think that's kind of the wrong way to look at the problem.
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