>>12387176only do physics if you like it. it can be lucrative, but you have to be in the right place at the right time. When there is a talent vacuum in industry physicists usually fill the vacuum until academia can make a program to mint graduates who specifically fill the gap.
for example, in the 80s and 90s physicists went on to become quants whereas it's very hard to do that today.
more recently the data science field had a vacuum that was filled by a lot of physicists that is slowly being filled up.
