Abstract
As everyone is now aware, the academic job market began to go sour in the 1970s, and predictions for the 1980s are even gloomier. Physical science PhDs are more fortunate than their colleagues in other fields, however, because they have the outlet of jobs in industry, where they can use many of the skills they acquired in graduate training. Astronomers are in a special position, however. First, production of PhDs has decreased much less in astronomy than in physics. Second, astronomers are frequently perceived as impractically trained and lacking the skills that industry requires.
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