Top 10 Non-Academic Jobs for Ph.D.s
by Kevin Tankersley When Melissa Epstein was working on her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, she fostered aspirations of being a Congressional Fellow or working as a policy maker. Those plans “didn’t work out,” she said, and Ms. Epstein now works on the institutional review board at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. She’s in charge of overseeing the “protection of human subjects,” the “lab rats” who volunteer to take part in medical testing. Ms. Epstein earned a master’s degree in Jewish studies from Oxford and her bachelor’s degree from the University […]