I have a PhD in the humanities and am now working on NLP. I can attest to the difficulty of finding a fulfilling career in humanities academia, but I don’t know

I have a PhD in the humanities and am now working on NLP. I can attest to the difficulty of finding a fulfilling career in humanities academia, but I don’t know if it’s worse than STEM academia since academia is insanely competitive in general. In my school (Ivy League) , PhDs in my department attain professorship as often as STEM ones, if not faster. I think the humanities are more suited for general education than specialization, unless you want to be a professional scholar, which is a fine choice as long as you are aware of the competition. I do think humanities need to re-brand itself as an essential part of general higher education (STEM kids need to know some humanist thinking) rather than just specializations.