>>13132475>seems like oyu cant find a job in physics if you dont have a phd+postdoc then?Your chances are slim even with those. It's looking really bleak right now unless your PhD thesis was in something like quantum computing (which imo is engineering, not physics, but hurr durr quantum = physics). It gets worse the less "applied" the subfield is. My advisor told me my subfield, HEP theory, is as good today as a history PhD. Only about 10% of physics phd graduates end up as postdocs and only about half of those postdocs get anywhere beyond that. What's more sad is that it is exclusively down to networking. I know plenty of retards in my department who do some very dubious things, yet are social butterflies. I'm not saying I'm a saint either, but it is what it is.
>Having a physics job in industry is therefore a pipe dream?You can certainly find something that resembles physics, but don't count on it. At the end of the day, industry is there to make you money. You can study physics on your free time, which is imo better: there's nothing that kills passion faster than having it as a job.
t. phd student
