When you stop learning, life is boring. The proper activity of humans I think is activity, and the more you do in a day, the happier you are.

That is the reason why I wanted to do a PhD, although I dropped out because of the job market.

If you want to read about the struggle to find meaning in work outside of grad school and academe, check out my blog selloutyoursoul.com, its a guide for lost humanities majors looking to still think and learn outside of academe.

I think that is part of the job crisis problem: there aren't enough public or private research jobs, glutting the academic system with Ph.D's for which there is only a bit of space.

If you have any students thinking about a Ph.D. in the humanities, please send them to selloutyoursoul.com, a blog that tells the story of a grad student drop out and the danger of training for a Ph.D. when there isn't enough jobs to support them