When my husband got/accepted his job offer, it was THE hot piece of gossip in his department because people getting jobs is so rare. I had people I barely know come up to be and say, “so, I heard [husband] got a job. What’s it like to be married to an academic unicorn?” To be fair, he branched off from his main track to something much more marketable while still staying in his field, but anyone in his department can make that choice and don’t because they think THEY will be the academic unicorn. They’re not, and it sets a lot of people up for ridiculous student loans and useless degrees, but no one wants to know about the personal responsibility aspect of graduate degrees and making wise choices and what you go into and where you go (like unfunded PhD programs. OMG. I can’t even start or I won’t be able to start). It’s all very frustrating.