As a graduate student, how pessimistic should one be about obtaining academic employment after completing a PhD? Many articles I’ve seen present a rather pessimistic picture, although most of these are not specific to ecology, but address STEM in general: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-pushes-for-more-scientists-but-the-jobs-arent-there/2012/07/07/gJQAZJpQUW_story.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-the-us-produce-too-m http://www.economist.com/node/17723223 http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/24301 http://wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/12/workforce
-curious grad student
