How's the academic job market?
I quit my day job as a lawyer last year to go back to uni for a BA in classics, and, man, I'm really looking for some reassurance, because my friends and family all insist that I made a huge mistake. I am quite good at greek and latin, I love the field to death and I'm willing to work my ass off towards getting a PhD.
EDIT: Thanks for the mostly helpful answers. Alas, even in the face of reasonable counterarguments and insurmountable obstacles I remain unwaveringly delusional. Grad school it is. Some clarifications:
This is not a shitpost
I am 24 and a full time undergrad student (i.e. unemployed)
I detested law school and would rather kill myself than go back to practicing law
Money is not my biggest concern: university is free in my country, and I plan to mooch off my middle class parents till I'm at least thirty
I am set on getting a PhD, but if things do not work out I would not necessarily mind not working in academia.
Cheers, and maybe I'll come back to this post in five years' time to see how things have changed