Pic related is going to be me soon AMA

[Anonymous No.16225602]

>PhD in Physics
>rejected from 200+ jobs over 13 months
>can’t even unironically get a teaching job
>freelancing profile got shutdown because I used a nickname
>multiple failed business ventures
>missed the crypto bubble and bought the top
>failed musician with 0 sales on band camp
If /biz/ approves, I would be willing to livestream my sudoko this weekend when my parents go on holiday

[Anonymous No.16225646]

>>16225602
how about your social skills, dude? Maybe just leave the US, go to europe and apply as some kind of english/physics teacher there... PhD sounds nice, so they might take you in...

[Anonymous No.16225651]

Why dont you just join the military

[Anonymous No.16225658]

>>16225651
Read the OP's pic

[Anonymous No.16225665]

>>16225602
teach in SEA and get paid $30-40 a teaching hr. Someone with your credentials could get a teaching gig easily. You don't even have to teach English. Seriously, your competition is backpackers and people with social science degrees.

[Anonymous No.16225675]

>>16225651
this
>join military as officer
>get specialized training based on degree
>work for some time
>leave military and work as civilian contractor
>profit

[Anonymous No.16225702]

here you go OP, you are welcome for doing your homework for you. now stfu and get to your nearest recruitment center

[Anonymous No.16225730]

>>16225602
Find a capable co-founder and get venture funded. There are literally 10 good CEO/business type co-founders for every hard sciences type out there. There is no way you won't get funded if you buddy up with a non-retard and come up with a half-decent idea.

[Anonymous No.16225740]

he fell for the college meme

[Anonymous No.16225741]

there is no way you are a physics PhD

where are you doing your post doc?

[Anonymous No.16225768]

>>16225741
There are no postdocs in my field

[Anonymous No.16225788]

>>16225768
dude if you are a larping faggot i wish 20 years of bad luck on you but if you arent can you post some proof its just crazy how people with a physics phd or any stem phd exist...you guys know so much crazy shit

[Anonymous No.16225792]

>>16225768
>given the key to fix his problems
>still acting like he doesn't know what to do
on second thought op, carry on with your original plans

[Anonymous No.16225797]

>>16225741
he's a dropout obviously

[Anonymous No.16225900]

>>16225768
just like that the larping faggot disappears. you will have bad luck for 20 years anon

[Anonymous No.16225930]

>>16225602
Your own fault for choosing a meme degree. Next life better pick something with value to employers like arts

[Anonymous No.16225933]

tfw neet

[Anonymous No.16225968]

>>16225602
>conflating intelligence and education
>taking a non-marketable path
>hurdurr b-b-but I am Einstein
>remove yourself from the genetic pool
>another parasite removed

[Anonymous No.16225982]

"How bout Gender Identity? How do you FEEL about it anon?"
"I have no feelings, PhD remember?"
"But anon, everything IN NATURE has feelings."
"Ok, I feel like
>dubs rape
>trips defenestrate
*Red glasses stares blankly*

[Anonymous No.16226014]

>>16225602
>doing high school physics
>have 4 different teachers within the last 3 years of school
>all have a phd in physics
>the last one had a phd in something related to biology but he was the only one qualified to teach us since he had a diploma in teaching

whatever the state education department did, im assuming it was to stop people from teaching without a teaching degree, it put an end to the phd meme really fast. most of them would turn up because they had their funding cut and would resort to teaching for a living.

[Anonymous No.16226107]

>>16225602
OP I'm in a similar situation to you, chemistry PhD and job hunting 3 months now. You need to be in regular contact with your PhD advisor about this and talk to everyone you ever saw in the hall or class about openings at their companies. Networking as above got me phone interviews with 5 companies now, waiting to hear back about on-sites from 4 and rejected from 1. Online applications have all (roughly 50 of 50 at this point) got no response or the same copy paste rejection. Hang in there and get creative about who you talk to.

[Anonymous No.16226136]

>>16226107
its insane how much knowledge you have about chemistry dude...you must be a master of organic chem and such things wow....very cool dude

[Anonymous No.16226665]

>>16226107
>networking
I attend events pretty much every week and they all tell me they’re looking for more experienced/senior candidates

[Anonymous No.16226689]

>>16225930
I didn’t really want to a PhD. I was looking for a job for a year after my graduation actually. These days its very easy for any retard to do a PhD. But good luck getting a job afterwards because if you don’t publish 10 papers (first author) you’re fucked like I am.

[Anonymous No.16226696]

>>16226136
Stop with the flattery. Most PhDs are dumb like me. Only the top 0.01% of PhDs actually know their shit in and out. But they have eidetic memories.

[Anonymous No.16226735]

>>16225788
No we don’t. Stop idolizing us ffs. I hate it how people think we’re geniuses. Sure some who have a PhD in Physics are geniuses, but they’re still the top 0.1% of PhDs. Most people in my program either dropped out, ended up teaching or committed suicide. Very few ended up getting postdocs and even a small minority ended up getting real jobs that don’t pay min wage.

[Anonymous No.16226804]

>>16226107
walterwhite

[Anonymous No.16226819]

>>16225665
>Seriously, your competition is backpackers and people with social science degrees

Its the same for even normal jobs so I don’t see how its going to be any different. I know some dude who studied philosophy and got a software dev job after learning Python for 6 weeks. There are no hard and fast rules in the job market. Its all about timing and who you know. Been social helps a lot, but it’s something gained over years of upbringing and can’t be learned overnight.

[Anonymous No.16226856]

>>16225602
Only difference between you and successful people is they didnt give up and kept grinding.

[Anonymous No.16226884]

>>16226856
So you suggest I keep applying and remain unemployed?

[Anonymous No.16226917]

>>16226884
You keep pushing until you find success. You're considering a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Killing yourself is incredibly selfish and a sign of total weakness. Man the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.16226969]

>>16225646
This. You're gonna have to settle for some shithole like Latvia or something dude, sorry

[Anonymous No.16226988]

>>16226856
What a load of bullshit

[Anonymous No.16227148]

>>16226735
This. They're often just people who if anything are fearful of having to join the real world and get a job after graduating, so they just continue through academia instead. The only problem is this is delaying the inevitable and you end up like OP where you have a niche qualification that 99% of jobs don't want or require, crippling debt and no job experience. In OPs position I would probably try and start my own business somehow, although this is just piling risk on top of risk, he's already too far gone to start wagecucking

[Anonymous No.16227226]

>stemcuck
lmao
your fault for not studying liberal arts.

[Anonymous No.16227231]

>>16226988
It's not a surprise a board full of defeatists with no will to improve their station in life have this attitude.

You picture this perfect life, with no worries, money, and the perfect asian wife. Yet non of it will come to fruition because you do nothing to achieve it. Video games are a great way to relax, but that's it. They dont add productivity to your life.

[Anonymous No.16227239]

He didn’t fly so good...

[Anonymous No.16227259]

>>16225602
What kind of physics

[Anonymous No.16227294]

>>16225602
Learn programming you dumbo. Google will beg to suck your cock

[Anonymous No.16227305]

Have you tried something like advertising high school tutoring in your local rich areas? You could probably make a comfy living out of charging the hell out of rich people to make sure their little angel gets top marks in exams.

[Anonymous No.16227378]

>>16225602
>be me
>dropped out of school in 8th grade
>get drunk and stoned daily
>make tens of thousands monthly trading options
>market just opened literally just made $700

OP, why aren't you as successful as me?

[Anonymous No.16227422]

>>16227378
Based

[Anonymous No.16227423]

>>16225602
Education is useless without a form of unteachable specialization.
>Ability to speak well.
>Friendliness.
>Innate ability to learn quickly.
>Time management.

[Anonymous No.16227460]

>>16227378
That's pretty based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.16227476]

>>16225602
Lol that’s what you get whitey. Move along it time for the minorities and Jews to shine!

[Anonymous No.16227664]

>>16227378
tips?

[Anonymous No.16227697]

>>16225602
Learn to program and join a hedge fund

[Anonymous No.16227997]

>>16225768

OP, I have yet to finish my thesis and already refused 3 job opportunities without putting a lot of effort into the search.

If you weren't such a dumb ass you would know that what you do during your phd does not strictly define the field in which your carrier as a physicist is going to be built upon. Also, you are to be regarded a total failure if the most relevant work you do is the one you developed during your phd, unless you are someone like Josephson.

Lastly, there are a lot of well paid opportunities in the industry where people are preferentially hiring physicists because of the superior problem solving skills and ability to learn fast. Which is not your case because you are a dumb ass.

[Anonymous No.16228235]

>>16227997
Thanks for reminding me the truth. This is exactly why I am going to kms.

[Anonymous No.16228525]

>>16228235
Anon, you are a clear case of someone that undersells his own self. I've met others like that in the field that despite being talented could not find value in their abilities. Perhaps because of lack of self esteem, perhaps because of lack of perspective.
Anyway, that mind set does not help you one bit. I'm telling you by my own experience that you have a set of tools at your disposal that are a huge competitive advantage in many areas. Find those areas and learn a way to market yourself better.

[Anonymous No.16228566]

>>16225602
>being white/Asian/Indian
That was your first mistake

[Anonymous No.16228573]

>>16228525
>Find those areas and learn a way to market yourself better.

How? Been trying for a year. I have a portfolio of projects. Its not the greatest thing ever, but its more than what most people do. I know people who just bluffed their way through with no experience. But their social skills were maxed out so that was their advantage

[Anonymous No.16228599]

>>16225602
Learn to code (unironically), meet with collaborators, use your superior physics knowledge to solve problems and your coding abilities as the means to that end, pitch your ideas to potential investors (you can do this online nowadays, you're only some Googling and research removed) until you get funded and moon the business. All smart STEM degree holders should realize their worth and go their own way to change the world through entrepreneurship. There's an old saying in sales: "Pound the phone until they buy or say bye". Get to it. Be aggressive. You come off as a fucking geek stuck in a terrible loop. Fix yourself.

[Anonymous No.16228657]

Just join the armed forces so they discipline you fuckface

[Anonymous No.16228681]

>>16225602
While I can understand that you might not get a job doing research, you should have at least some marketable skills.
If you did experimental solid state physics you could work in the semiconductor industry, with laser physics in the optical industry etc. But even if you specialized in theoretical physics you could work at a bank or an insurance company. Also what about your coding skills? Most universities I know make it impossible to graduate if you don't know C++ or at least Python.

Like >>16227259, I honestly want to know what you did your PhD in.

[Anonymous No.16228732]

>>16225602
Do what I did and become a trader. Get a job at a prop shop. Make bank on some investor's dime.

[Anonymous No.16228750]

>>16228599
the reality is you probably won't solve anything useful with your knowledge of physics

[Anonymous No.16228757]

>>16225602
just dont. all of the alternatives posted here are better than what you have in mind.

[Anonymous No.16228895]

>>16228681
>>16227259

>Like >>16227259, I honestly want to know what you did your PhD in.
I did some shit with nanotechnology i.e. worked as a lab monkey. Don't ask me why its a PhD in Physics but thats how it is. I never had to program during my PhD because there was no point. All I had to do is press a button and the $500k instrument we had in our lab would just pump out some data which I'd plug into Excel or Origin to analyze. Yes, I am not joking. Excel is used and still used by lab rats who never experience the simulation world that "real" physicists use like astro and particle physics people. I started to learn programming in my final year of PhD, and well, could never pass those hackerrank or take home assignments because well really, I didn't know I had to study the entire syllabus of a 1st year Comp sci degree to pass them.

>>16228732
What do you mean become a trader. There are barely any prop shops left thanks to algorithmic trading.

>>16228657
>>16225702
Would love to but the army doesn't allow people with mental illnesses or other disabilities to join.

[Anonymous No.16228940]

>>16228573
This anon >>16228599
gave you a good answer, but you and I know that it is not going to be the path you are going to take. Your soft skills need development, that's for sure.
I assume you already have good computational kwoledge. If you are not an experimentalist that spent your phd analyzing data with excel, you should know how to code in a couple different languages. If you are a theoretical guy you should also have experience developing models as well. Those are skills that a lot of companies are looking for in a data scientist. Your advantage to computer science grad is that you have a different way to look at a problem.
If you want to remain in the academia you can look for jobs in countries that are in academic expansion and are desperate to hire foreigners so that they can form international teams. I'm talking about china, emirates, brasil... Not the first world but some of the positions are well paid. Remember that the exact field of your phd does not strictly define what you are going to do next. Hell, you are probably going to be able to find a job on a chemical department or computer science department.

[Anonymous No.16228962]

God I'm so glad I went all in link in 2017
I would've been utterly hopeless today if not for Sergey and my /biz/bros
t. PHD in engineering with no job

[Anonymous No.16228972]

>>16228940
>If you are not an experimentalist that spent your phd analyzing data with excel

See this >>16228895
and this is why there is no hope left for me

[Anonymous No.16229017]

>>16225788
Heil'd. I'm in PhD program, but a lot of the other students are literally people that just wanted to out off being an adult after undergrad. It's really depressing being around them.

[Anonymous No.16229101]

>>16228573
Learn how to code in R, teach some algorithms through machine learning, sharpen your Excel skills (most data scientists I've met actually only fuck around in Excel, it's quite funny), fake your resume to market yourself better, etc. Highly educated (see: credentialed) people have a hard time thinking outside of the box because their entire life was spent "climbing the ladder" and they expected an easy shoo-in at the end of said ladder. This inevitable results in narrow sight and lack of lateral expansion.

You're in a tough spot, but nothing I haven't see others get out of.

[Anonymous No.16229115]

>>16228895
Well shit, did not read this post before my last answer.
I would think an experimentalist with a phd would have a good chance to find a job in the industry, Specially in nano science. More so than a theoretician. Look for jobs in the food industry, pharma...
Academy in expanding countries is also a good option. With your background you can apply for positions in chemistry and physics departments.
Don't undersell all the shit you've learn up to the point you are now just because you are underwhelmed with your phd.

[Anonymous No.16229138]

>>16225646
He's larping but if it was real he's on 4chan and a physics PhD. You can't get more autistic than that

[Anonymous No.16229147]

>>16228895
algos only have the advantage on the smaller time frames, they don't care about your $500 swing trade

[Anonymous No.16229151]

>>16228895
Well at least nanotechnology is an applied field, aren't there some firms who use the machine you were working with? Also you probably got some insight into the project you were working at beyond the fact that you had to push a button, isn't there anything you learned that might be used in a real world application?

[Anonymous No.16229174]

Bullshit. I have a MSc in Mathematics and there is an overabundance of jobs. Science majors are super overrated. Go into trading dude.

[Anonymous No.16229197]

>>16225602
dont do it nigger

[Anonymous No.16229198]

>>16229147
Then why aren’t you a successful trader?

[Anonymous No.16229205]

>>16229174
yeah, stem is a meme, it's really only "TE" and quickly becoming only "E" with all the ethot coders.

[Anonymous No.16229218]

>>16229198
because i overleveraged, but i would be successful already if i just dialed down the amount i use

[Anonymous No.16229234]

>>16225602
Move to the Bay Area and get a data scientist job 140k starting. Anyone with a PhD can get hired as a data scientist.

[Anonymous No.16229248]

>>16229218
Nah trading is a meme dude. Algos themselves may not trade higher timeframes but the combination of multiple algos passing contracts back and forth is what ultimately drives the long-term price.
Yes trading on daily/weekly charts is more accurate than intraday but unless you have access to fundamental data as quickly as someone like an RJO higher-up would have it’s quite literally gambling and you’d be better off learning a skill.

[Anonymous No.16229263]

>>16229248
have you actually tried it? then you are bad at, i know i can make money, and i will be making money within the next 3 months doing so

[Anonymous No.16229273]

>>16225675
you can't get into army if you are civil over 30
you leave sooner than 55 or whatever the retirement age is = 0 pension
why the fuck do you think there are so many homeless vets
It's good if you are young and have nothing to lose. But you OP is already old

[Anonymous No.16229324]

>>16229263
What is your instrument? Timeframe? Broker? TA or FA?
I have tried trading and have been up quite a lot but then I realized it was mostly luck. Curious as to what your approach is

[Anonymous No.16229328]

>>16229273
So what? the point is for OP to get work experience and become more marketable in the civilian world. While in the military he can save money and invest whatever he can, then when he gets out work as a contractor or for just wagecuck for a company and be in a much better place than he is now. Victim/loser mentality is the pitfall of all college graduates who can't get creative into finding a job in their field

[Anonymous No.16229337]

[Anonymous No.16229748]

>>16225602
Fuck everything, go teach english in asia and fuck a bunch of cuties. But dont kys, it will destroy your parents even if you think it wont.

[Anonymous No.16229786]

>>16227294
This.
Do a boot camp and hype the fuck up
Modafinnil will help
Are you READY?!

[Anonymous No.16229795]

>>16225602
taking the easy way out. natural selection is a bitch. if you cant see other alternatives, you are truly a faggot.

[Anonymous No.16229867]

>>16225602
Master's degree master race reporting. What do you get when you leave academia at 28 with no industry experience?

[Anonymous No.16229891]

>>16229273
As an officer, you only need to make O-4 to get retirement for life. O-1 to O-3 are essentially automatic. Max age for chair force iirc is 39 lol.

[Anonymous No.16229893]

>>16225602
I wonder if he was able to calculate the kinetic energy expended due to the change in his momentum before he died

[Anonymous No.16229916]

>>16227294
There are probably tens of thousands of physics graduates and above applying to google every year

[Anonymous No.16229958]

>>16225602
>livestream my sudoko this weekend when my parents go on holiday
you're not gonna do it in front of them? Weak

[Anonymous No.16229988]

>>16227378
Yeah but where did you grt the capital for trading? I had to get a job cause I had no starting capital. However my wage keeps going up so I feel like I will never reacha point where it makes sense to start trading for real.

[Anonymous No.16229998]

I only have a bachelor's in physics with shitty grades and I got hired right away by Leidos as a contractor for the air force making way too much money now. OP if you can get a security clearance you will find plenty of companies that will start you with a 200k salary.

[Anonymous No.16230104]

In my Bsc in chemistry with 9 months lab experience (as a government chemist) already and currently in my final year now. Was thinking about PhD but looking at the stress, always seeing threads like this and many other horror stories I think imma going with going into the pharmaceutical industry straight after , thanks OP for setting me straight fuck academia

[Anonymous No.16230155]

>>16230104
>>16229248
also OP trading isn't that bad, wagecuck and save like 10k-20k and start trading that while meantime using small amounts to perfect a working tested strategy , saying ''muh algos'' is brainlet talk, predict where the muh algos etc are going and use proper risk management and you can make livable income

[Anonymous No.16230171]

>>16229248
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw8ZvFb4LZY

all in all, listen to these fucks, at least you aren't these retards

[Anonymous No.16230213]

>>16229958
live like a faggot die like a faggot

[Anonymous No.16230293]

>>16226696
if you couldn't tell he's joking, the problem is severe autism

[Anonymous No.16230331]

>>16229248
That's so retarded it's not even funny. No dude, lower timeframes don't affect higher timeframes. It's hyerarchical like vortexes in turbulent flux, smaller scale vortexes don't conspire to form a big cyclon. Entropy and shit.

[Anonymous No.16230360]

>>16229324
Trading is not about having a good strategy. It is all about acquiring the tools that allow you to discern a good strategy from blind luck. Other than that, pick some random trade idea that makes sense to you and test it on the charts.

[Anonymous No.16230417]

>>16228525
>this
there are a lot of companies who will hire you
>physicist+math=genius in normies mind
most companies will hire you just for your math skills

[Anonymous No.16230424]

>>16226917
Reread the OP. He isnt going to kill himself. He's going to live stream himself playing sudoku so we all die of boredom.

[Anonymous No.16230430]

>>16228566
Someone did an analysis of his fake out; their conclusion was that his stats didn't improve.

[Anonymous No.16230480]

>>16228757
Yes, sudoku is boring af. Sepuku on the other hand....