In graduate school, students begin to explore their field of study in depth. Some programs of study are highly specialized while others prepare their students more broadly. In general, graduate education is not intended to prepare you as a specialist or for a particular job.  It prepares you to think critically in the discipline and to develop the knowledge, skills, and competencies to enable you to continue to learn and contribute to the advancement of the discipline as a science and profession.

At the doctoral level, you are being prepared to advance the state of knowledge in the discipline through research, to synthesize that knowledge in relation to other bodies of knowledge, to teach and to communicate that knowledge to various publics in a professionally responsible way. Ideally, you are being prepared to be a scholar and steward of your discipline.

You may or may not be mentored quite well by your graduate faculty. Take initiative and seek out faculty who know you and your work, and explore with them interests that you have for your career, at least in planning your more immediate post-graduate years.