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My reflections on this matter are very unscientific, in a way. They are based primarily on my personal experience and those of people I know, plus statistical evidence from recent surveys. There are success stories and horror stories, for sure. My intent is not to be overly pessimistic, but realistic.
Obviously, some Ph.D. students are nearly forced to hope for an academic path as their only viable path. I am thinking of my good friends with Ph.D.s in Comparative Literature, English Literature, Philosophy. These subjects are naturally harder to apply outside of the Academe. But not impossible. Consider, for example, what wonders the Digital Humanities are working. Projects like \href{https://books.google.com/ngrams}{the N-gram viewer} or \href{http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/09w259/Moretti_graphs.pdf}{Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees} were only possible because humanists were able to employ quantitative techniques.
Final word. Dear Ph.D. student, I hope that this blog post will not discourage you to carry on with your amazing doctoral research. Keep going! My Ph.D. years were the most formative of my life. But do play with the idea that you may end up somewhere else. And in preparation for that possibility, think of ways to re-purpose your work and "remarket" yourself early on. You will not regret it.
