I have a fairly hardcore PhD in social sciences (where I produced some really useful work on how to better understand technology driven social phenomena which are difficult to define, and near-impossible to parameterise). In fact my PhD was awarded in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences. Which is the problem. The business faculties have eaten large amounts of the social science faculties. And in substantial parts of the business faculties the quality of academic work is dreadful (e.g. have a look at how marketing students are taught statistics - or consider in these faculties, Economics is the most rigorous of the disciplines argh!).

So with that PhD, what do I do? I'm a jobbing programmer currently doing ecommerce stuff - i.e. I tell computers what to do. It's good money, interesting work and they mostly leave me alone to get on with it, so on that level, no problem.