/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12285870
>Does anyone here actually work on quantum computing in an industry position?
Sort of. My company has been throwing fun money at internal projects and I ended up leading a QC project. I've never been to graduate school, but am apparently employable for this kind of work by virtue of being the only person interested enough to suggest anything. My physics background is bad, but quantum computing can be understood with very little QM and I'm so deep in the literature I can propose plausible projects. I imagine most people who do quantum computing in industry and aren't building hardware have a similar background. Once I'm done laying the groundwork, they'll probably hire someone like OP to move things along.

If you have several publications, a PhD, and you can talk about getting a job as "a career move" rather than "starting a career", you don't have anything to worry about. Industry is a desperate struggle to find applications for your work that can bring in external funding. I imagine grant chasing feels the same. Pick your poison.

>>12229216
Time travel and official waifu of this board. Steins gate is to /sci/ what evangelion is to /a/

>>10431250
Good for you.

How fucked am I career wise as an undergrad (Molbio/biochemistry) if I accept a full-time position doing field and lab work in basically environmental science. We had a nigga drop into our small class/lab tell us they're looking to hire us because we have the skills they need-I assume this is because environmental science niggas don't know shit.

Having variety of field and lab work excites me, but honestly up to this point my main focus has been on tumor immunology. I don't know if I will be shooting myself in the foot if I go the environmental path...would I be locked out of following my final goal of having a PhD(molbio) focused on immunology.

>>10361680
Please don't remind me, anon. It's too painful