Over educated ≠ unmarketable

I’ve got a PhD in English and no job prospects.  The academic job market sucks.  Now what?  I have no savings, no other work experience…did I screw myself by being over educated?  Help! [3558A]

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) “offers recent Ph.D. recipients in the humanities opportunities to develop as scholars and teachers while learning about modern librarianship, digital resources, e-publishing, archives, and collection development both digital and analog.” You might consider something like this.