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Is anyone here a physicist? What is your job like/what do you do (specifically)?

>> No.6527703

Most days I'm behind the grill but sometimes I run the register too.

>> No.6527706

>>6527703
he didnt ask for math phd's

>> No.6528025

>>6527702
so everybody on this board is a science elitist with no actual background?

>> No.6528037

>>6528025
Actually most here are just undergrads

>> No.6528044

>>6528025
The R&D department doesn't want its inside specialists talking about the latest findings. It's more money in our pockets, more smiles on our children's faces, if it's OUR company that finds ways to market the findings we've made.

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>>6528025
ask a calc 2 question and no one can answer it

>> No.6528048

>>6527706
oh well, my bad. mopping the floors and scrubbing the toilets then

>> No.6528049

>>6527703
Is grill a better job than register?
I've always wondered which is higher up.

>> No.6528051

>>6527703
How do you confuse "physics" with "liberal arts"?

>> No.6528069

>>6527702
I do R&D with a major global firm working on a state of the art electron microscope, doing ground breaking research into chemical processes with marketable applications.

>> No.6528071

>>6527702
I've been a PhD student for 1 week now, and so far my schedule is
>07:00 to 08:00, shower, have breakfast, check e-mails
>08:00 to 18:30, travel to-and-from the department, study the fuck out of the background material in the sub-field
>18:30 to 19:30, make dinner
>19:30 to 23:00, watch Chinese girl cartoons, post on 4chan
>23:00 to 01:00, intend to go to bed, fail due to being too used to unemployment (took a year after graduating to finally get a place, thanks funding agencies)

On the weekend so far I've just been going over the notes I'm making, and just generally catching up on sleep.

>> No.6528077

>>6528071
Forgot to say, stupidly, that I'm working in the field of Nonimaging optics (someone mentioned it in a thread the other day, interestingly).

>> No.6528106

>>6527703
>tfw you graduate with your degree and find out how saturated the pool is and end up doing whatever you can find cuz nigga gotta eat

>> No.6528156

Not finished my phD yet, I raise steers and will continue to do so after this (I have family working my fields, all I do is get most of the money). not hurried at all to exercise my title.

>> No.6528177

>>6527703
many lulz

gratz OP

>> No.6528216

can I safely assume that physicists who got a job are working on it and deff not spending time on 4chan? or is it really that bad

>> No.6528222

>>6528049
Grill is better because you don't have to deal with customers who can be stupid, a pain in the ass, or typically both.

>> No.6528231

>>6528216
I hear it's bad if you only have your bachelors, you will pretty much be unemployable, if you are employed it will likely be relatively low pay and you may not even be doing physics stuff.

PhD and having published research opens up a lot more options but it's a huge time and money commitment with no guarantee of quick payback. If you got a free ride or have a disposable income it might be worth it but for poorer people it may not be the wisest choice. There is also a ton of pressure to produce original research and what not, if you can't handle that it's not for you.

>> No.6528235

>>6528222
>Grill is better because you don't have to deal with customers who can be stupid, a pain in the ass, or typically both.
I gotta agree, learn the job & do it well and you will be left alone to work in peace.

Can anyone here answer >>6527744

>> No.6528274

>>6528231
our educational system is free of charge so money's not an issue. I am planning to move out of my country cause a physicists' wage here is 300€/month with same/higher prices than in murrica. So if we're talking about more than 1-2k dollars/month, that is some serious money to me. I don't actually care about living a usual life; I find physics interesting even if I keep the knowledge to myself and sell coconuts on the beach

>> No.6528729

>>6528231
>I hear it's bad if you only have your bachelors

I don't think so, everyone I know who graduated with a physics bachelor and didn't go into a graduate program ended up getting a job, although a lot of them got a job in something unrelated to physics like finance, they just hire people who are good at solving mathematical problems.

>> No.6528849

>>6528729
>and got into a graduate program
I don't think that counts as "just a bachelor"...

>> No.6528855

>>6528849
Read it again.

>and didn't go into a graduate program