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Where can a degree in mathematics or physics lead a person career wise?

>> No.1366173

McDonalds

>> No.1366170

Beyond the universe.

>> No.1366181

I work at Mcdonads but I do the FRIES now!

>> No.1366179

The local fishmarket.

>> No.1366184

A neat little job on a pumpkin farm.

>> No.1366187

McDonals

high school teacher

maybe community college

mcdonalds

>> No.1366188

>>1366165
Physics will get you employment practically anywhere. Defense, materials science, aerospace, economics, its your best bet if you're smart and want to keep your options open.

>> No.1366193

Unforseen consequences.

>> No.1366207

>>1366188
Right, and they'd first hire engineers than you. Stop deluding yourself.

>> No.1366212
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>>1366193
A physics degree puts you in a position to one day save the world.

>> No.1366220

>>1366207
No, they won't. I've been to career fairs since freshman year. Undergrad school is more or less proof of your ability to learn. What better way to do that than to study the hardest subject available?

Companies hire 4 year degree holders and train them for years anyway. If you can make it through four years of physics, the thought is you can easily grasp the other stuff.

>> No.1366252

Math == actuary.

>> No.1366273

>>1366220
You really think they give a shit if you studied physics or engineering? if you can show you know your shit, you are hired. There are FAR more engineers in those positions than physicists. 99% of jobs won't use most of the shit you learn (and forget by the time you graduate) in physics/math.

Fuck, even actuaries don't use math anywhere NEAR as compelx as the ones that appear in the tests you have to pass to become an actuary.

The jobs that do are very, very few and far between. Just because physics is "harder" (note the quotation marks) than engineering doesn't mean you will get instan hired.

You are in for a rude awakening once you graduate.

>> No.1366336

INb4 300k Starting

>> No.1366338

>>1366336
Beat me to it.

>> No.1366344

>>1366252
Not actually true. Most often they come from business backgrounds.

>> No.1366382 [DELETED] 

>Any job you want
>$300k starting

>> No.1366593

>>1366273
So all of the recruiters I've spoken to in the last three years have lied and only feigned interest to boost my morale.

>> No.1366617

>>1366593
I think you would do well to disregard him. No employer would give a job to a less qualified person just because they happened to have the same sexual orientation.

>> No.1366664

the unemployment line

>> No.1366754

>>1366617
wat

>> No.1366844

>>1366754
He's referring to the typo that turned "morale" into "morals". Don't worry about it. It's funny, but not as funny as the guy writing it probably hoped it'd be. He shouldn't feel bad about it, though, as the setup was a little awkward for a joke, and he did quite well with what was available. Based on that one joke, I vote we give him all the money that's being thrown at hacks like Dane Cooke and Jeff Dunham.

>> No.1366900

>>1366844
...

...wat

>> No.1366943

>>1366844

samefag double fail

>> No.1366952

>>1366943
What the fuck is wrong with him?

>> No.1366958

>>1366754
>>1366900
>>1366943
samefag triple fail

>> No.1366960

publix

>> No.1367015

>>1366960
Fuck yeah I fucking love Publix! BRB going back2skool.

>> No.1367127

>>1366960
>>1367015
samefag

>> No.1367595

>>1366165
>>1366170
samefag

>> No.1367606

>>1366943
>>1366958
samefag

>> No.1367614

>>1366165
Any job you want, 50k starting.

>> No.1367630

>>1366754
>>1366900
>>1366952
>>1366593
>>1366220
>>1366188
GASP! SAMEFAG!

>> No.1367649

>>1366336
>>1366338
samefag

>> No.1367670

>>1366173
>>1366181
>>1366187
samefag

>> No.1367715

>>1367127
>>1367595
>>1367606
>>1367630
>>1367649
>>1367670
samefag

>> No.1367732

There isn't really a field worth to mention where only physicists are hired excluding public research.
If you look at job offers, most of search a "master's degree in Engineering/Physics/etc." (don't nail me down on the major names here, can only speak for the german ones).
Applying for a job is much more than the name of your major. You've got to show that you know your stuff and are able to learn.In many fields it's sure an advantage to have an engineering degree and apply for a job in the industry, but that doesn't mean that you can't get these jobs when you're a physicists.

And about the difficulty discussion, cut the butthurt. Again, I can only speak for my country, but the difficulty differs greatly depending on university and the courses you take and there can also be cases where the engineer degree is "harder" than the physics and also the other way round.

>> No.1367736

>>1367670
>>1367715
samefag

>> No.1367737

>>1367732
sorry for the somehow fucked up sentences, I edited them while writing...

>> No.1367741

I'm so mad.

>> No.1367745

>>1367732
>>1367737
samefag

>> No.1367793

What about math?

>> No.1367806

>>1367745
>>1367793
samefag

>> No.1367808

They'd lead you right back here.

>> No.1367814

>>1367793
>>1367806
samefag

>> No.1367818

>>1367808
>>1367814
samefag

>> No.1367830

Christ, is this annoying to anybody else? Can we block all posts containing "samefag" or something? Yeah, some people samefag, but they contribute more to the conversation than anybody who calls them on it, and this guy's just calling everybody a samefag, whether they agree with each other or have nothing to do with each other. Fuck. This board is getting too /b/.

>> No.1367878

>>1367818
>>1367830
samefag

>> No.1367893

>>1367830
>>1367878
samefag

>> No.1367918
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>> No.1367922

masters in mathematics
job at NSA
THIS TEXT REDACTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

>> No.1367925

>>1367893
>>1367918
samefag

>> No.1367961

>>1367922
>>1367925
samefag

>> No.1367969

>>1367937
>>1367956
samefag

>> No.1367994

>>1367969
>>1367984
samefag

>> No.1368007

>>1366165
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

>> No.1368032

A BS in Biochemistry is far more valuable

>> No.1368058

>>1368032
A BS in BS is more valuable still.

>> No.1368072

>>1368032
>>1368058
samefag

>> No.1368093

>>1368032

a bs in biochemistry is pretty much useless on its own

if you polled the graduating biochem class at any university literally over 90% would be using it to apply to various grad school programs. mostly med school.

>> No.1368103

its bullshit that you cant get a job with a degree in math or physics, but its true you will not get one related to your major unless you have postgrad degree. physics and math majors can make alot of money in finance

>> No.1368106

>>1366165
does anybody else hate how they nerfed the Heavy in the latest update? It's like, fuck, there's no reason to play anything but Medic, anymore. I'm going back to God of War, it's a much better FPS than this generic shit.

>> No.1368138

>>1366165
>>1368106
samefag

>> No.1368938

To a mathematician or a physicist.

>> No.1368974

>PhD in mathematics
>Any job I want
>$300,000 starting

>PhD in physics
>Any theory I want
>Unrivaled understanding of the universe starting