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What can we learn from these statistics? Whether the actual ratio of Phds who become professor is 24\%, 12.8\% or 0.45\%, the bottom line is that 100\% is unattainable, even though the desires of most (if not all) graduate students is indeed to stay in academia. Very simply, the world is producing too many PhDs \cite{Cyranoski_2011} for too few academic positions and this unbalance has created the postdoc pile-up that we are experiencing \cite{Powell_2015}.  My reflections on this matter are based on statistical evidence from recent surveys but also on my personal experience and those of people I know. 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.