No degrees in linguistics (BS Physics, BS Meteorology, MS Computer Science) and working on PhD at UMass(Lowell). Which campus?

naturally.

well let me rephrase that, what do you plan to do with that once you're Dr. Uri?

I have an MA in applied linguistics - often this degree is used to teach English to speakers of other languages, either as a foreign or a second language; I work with immigrants and refugees, primarily, having already spent time overseas teaching EFL to rich kids and business people. Other applications of linguistics include (among a million other things) looking at various media and the relationships between language and society; my thesis is on the way existing power structures manipulate or utilize major newspapers to influence presidential elections, (for example). I'm trying to shift my attention away from language training and into more immediate political applications. If you're looking for reassurance that there's more to do than simply get a PhD and teach linguistics to undergrads, passing the torch, consider: voice recognition software and AI research; cultural preservation and language archiving; development of phonemic maps and writing systems for colloquial and preliterate languages, thus providing the "legitimacy" of a written form for political or communicative use; teaching English, literacy, other languages; speech pathology and vocal mechanics; computer translation and speaking systems (a teacher of mine used to design talking dolls for Mattel); legal semantic analysis; conflict mediation through pragmatic sensitivity; editing and proofreading; designing logic systems based upon linguistic structures; advertising and sound symbolism; etc...

good luck!