[giardini]

If this is for a Ph.D. you likely should leave for other reasons. To understand why I say this, navigate to

"Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists" by Philip Greenspun

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

Examine the graph at the bottom of that page.

[chrisseaton]

As the page says, it isn't serious. But more than that there isn't even an ounce of truth in it, so I don't see what the joke is at all.

Computer science has many extremely well paying, and simultaneously satisfying and intellectually rewarding jobs, for PhDs in industry.

There are some more serious articles linked above the silly graph, but they're not about computer science, and they're not about this decade.

[dnautics]

the crazy thing is while I agree with your statement about CS PhDs, the greenspun article really hit home (I'm a chem PhD). In chem and bio, there's a lot of pressure to get hands on a project, so more students are trained than there are jobs for them when things get out. There's even a term for this "postdocapalypse". We don't know what field OP is in.