So What Are You Going to Do with That?

What if, while one is ensconced in a six-year art history doctoral program, the idea of a career in academia loses its luster? Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius have been there, and they've used their Ph.D.s in English from Princeton--along with the additional confidence and skills their degrees have provided--to open doors into different (and higher-paying) careers. In ""So What Are You Going to Do with That?"": A Guide to Career-Changing for M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s, they use wit, directness and great anecdotal evidence to guide readers through the soul-searching decision to leave academia, turning a stuffy C.V. into a high-powered r sum and landing the interview--and the job. Agent, Daniel Greenberg. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $15 paper 176p ISBN 0-374-52621-4; Jan.)