/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8620148
>It did nothing for the Rustbelt, whose economy is mostly manufacturing based
Are you forgetting the auto bailout? Uncle Sam took on a huge stake in several major car companies and shepherded them to recovery. Things would be far, far worse if the federal government hadn't stepped up to the plate and floated Detroit etc. a loan.
Now, are there jobs that haven't come back? Certainly. But the decline of a lot of American manufacturing is the result first and foremost of technology, not of outsourcing. The Rust Belt is hurting, and while the Democrats told them a bitter truth (a lot of those jobs are gone for good, you need to get retrained for different kinds of work) Trump told them a comforting lie (I can make those jobs reappear good as new, we just need to get rid of the damn Mexicans). I wish I could be surprised that they bought it.

So I decided to shun away from physics first because I figured that aerospace engineering is more in line with what I wanna do. (Build Rockets)

Then I jumped ship to mech E this year because my understanding is that they are similar degrees and I can do more with mechanical.

Now, I haven't done a whole lot with mechanical engineering other than statics, but I'm currently enrolled in a physics III course for engineers. (Basically, tackling a lot of quantum physics, but doesn't get into relativity.)

So here's the thing - I am remembering why I wanted to do physics so much in the first place. it's absolutely fucking fascinating to me. I thought this course would be my most difficult, but I just fucking love it so much that the work really doesn't bother me. I also hear about all these cool physics projects and awesome mathematical concepts people in the physics department talk about, while engineering always seems kinda dull.

So I was curious /sci/, say I really wanted to go into physics/astrophysics, but I still want to be employed on some level. Is physics really a bad choice? Would dual majoring allow me some larger benefits? Perhaps another major entirely?

Any advice on this? I kinda just sperged out a bit, but I'm wondering if anybody ever faced similar decisions.