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Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 11:44:50 2020 No.12155702 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12155921 >>12155999 >>12156032 >>12157223

I fell for the physics meme and want to get a master's degree that is more employable. There's one that's available without taking any extra classes, Microelectronics and Photonics.
>Technology and Materials + relevant specialisation
>Photonics and Quantum Electronics
>Integrated Switching + relevant specialisation
>Components and Systems + relevant specialisation
>Applied Photonics
>Quantum Electronics specialisation
Would this be a good choice career-wise, or is it a better idea to go for Embedded Systems?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 13:20:44 No.12155921 Report

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>>12155702

Honestly, regardless your degree there always be some opportunities to evolve and get a career.

This is also the case for degree less peeps.

it's your job to recognize those opportunities and seize them.

Good luck Anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 13:58:10 No.12155999 Report

Quoted By: >>12156032 >>12157223

>>12155702
>physics degree
>not employable
seriously in which third world shithole do you live?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 14:21:01 No.12156032 Report

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>>12155702
Also consider doing a PhD.
I did Applied Physics for my first degree, had no problems doing embedded stuff. Lots of assembly programming including DSP work.

>>12155999
I wonder too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 14:25:40 No.12156045 Report

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>>12156032
wtf why did you choose a code monkey job instead of working on lasers and superconductors ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Sep 2020 20:51:27 No.12157223 Report

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>>12155702
Physics isn't a meme if you know what you want. If you want to get into an engineering grad topic, it's a great base. If you want to do research, it's a great base. If you want to get into technology from the get go, do lots of side projects and relevant code heavy classes for experience, and you can go that route.
Physics is only a meme if you expect STEM majors to immediately give you options.
>>12155999
See above, but it is true that CS and engineering students have better job prospects among a wide spread of careers.
>>12156045
1) jobs that involve software are not necessarily code monkey. Every stem job to some degree requires code and literacy - the salient part is what types of problems you are solving. Embedded and DSP problems are not codemonkeying per say, just in the same way that actual software engineering (cryptography, real time systems, flight control, etc) is not codemonkeying. This idea that scientists live only in the world of knowledge and never code, and that engineers (software or otherwise) live in codemonkeying but never learn about the things they're working on, much less designing, is dumb and a sign of an unexperienced undergrad.
Yes yes I know, the average CS major is dumb, but there's a reason why among the places I worked, at, those guys could still transfer between teams that were more hardware or low level focused provided they put in the time to catch up quickly. People don't give a shit about your degree - they care about your ability to get things done.
>t. physics major who did research engineering until PhD

A. Zeilinger wannabe

A. Zeilinger wannabe Thu 24 Sep 2020 21:46:02 No.12157382 Report

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Fuck yes OP do this! Quantum technology is super hot and there's a lot of jobs in the industry that requires a graduate degree if you want to work in quantum engineering. I myself am a PhD candidate in photonic quantum communication and it's the bees knees. I'm working on electronics for encoding and decoding of qubits and I've got a master in computer science and engineering.

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