<p>Essentially, if you don’t want to pursue an academic career in English or philosophy, there is little reason to get a Ph.D in those fields.</p>
<p>A Ph.D is not “four or five more years of college” - it is an intensive, long-term internship in the execution of research, scholarship and teaching in your chosen field. It is training and preparation for doing those things in your career. If you have no intention of doing those things for your livelihood, why would you spend five years of your life learning how to do them?</p>