>>11133543>>11133539>>11133356(cont.) However, if you can make it into a good programme it will be a hard, but fair and meritocratic process to graduate. The work is actually really interesting. You will regularly work with and travel the world meeting its smartest people (including physicists, mathematicians and engineers at the top of their field) and in my opinion at least it is really easy to publish in good journals if your adviser has a good reputation. It is important to focus on doing your own thing as soon as possible though (you have to create a niche for yourself to be competitive in the grant award process).
Now you have your PhD. Getting a postdoc coming out of a good PhD is actually relatively easy (and you don't have to negotiate for salary too hard, usually you get it with your grant). But the grind here is extreme, you need to keep up a pace of 3-10 papers per year or 2-5 high quality ones (published in Nature or Science). However, good salary and some time for your own consulting work (interesting and additional income) awaits. But eventually you want to apply for faculty. According to the latest statistics there is only 1 position for every 10 PhD gradautes. National labs have higher chances, but often your contract there is fixed period so it's similar to a postdoc anyway.
All in all your chances of getting into a good job coming from undergrad are roughly (1/10)(10/150)(1/10) * 100 = 0.07%
...or if you're coming from a good, top 20 ranked undergrad school (1/2)(10/150)(1/10) * 100 = 0.33%
So now you're starting to see why people say engineering is a shit college major. Yeah there are good jobs, there are high salaries, there is interesting work, but you almost certainly won't get those things and you have a better chance of making it as a vlogger.
