Next month I finish my PhD in theoretical physics (extended supersymmetry and related topics) and I'm looking now for a real job. I'm tired of the publish or perish philosophy.
Anyone knows how to get a job in the real world? what are my options? I know banks might like me, but I want to do something more productive than just make money. This list >aip.org/statistics/multiple seems pretty useful. Any suggestion? A friend in a engineering company told me that they won't hire me, because I don't have the profile.
Suggestions?
Liam Williams
>PhD in theoretical physics (extended supersymmetry and related topics) >and I'm looking now for a real job. u don goofd bro
Nolan Nguyen
You can either conduct research/acquire a fellowship. Or you can become a quantitive researcher on wall street (ex. Citadel Group).
P.S. I want to conduct theoretical research in the future on similar topics (ads/cft) what is the process of going through grad school? did you take any math classes?
Liam Price
You could burn your degree and become a janitor, like good will hunting, so that you can start over with something worthwhile.
Carter Campbell
An additional option would be to become a programmer since theoretical physicists require C/C++ etc. to conduct advanced computations.
Camden Ramirez
AdS/CFT is kind of dead, to be honest. A lot of people work on that, but there's no breakthrough. I didn't take courses, but I read (present and past) a lot of books about geometry, topology, etc. It's never enough.
Dominic Gray
> since theoretical physicists require C/C++
Not true. Depends on what you do. Several top higher spin guys don't know shit beyond latex. I only used Mathematica (like most). Some bootstrap people use a lot of C++.
Xavier Martinez
Did you conduct research on calabi yau manifolds?
Xavier Cook
>AdS/CFT is kind of dead more like all of theoretical physics lmao
Lucas Edwards
Regardless, there are jobs for people who can write that code. OP could consider working as a programmer at a national lab like LLNL. However, parallel programming is no joke. It's gonna be a very different skill set to pick up.
Dominic Sanchez
Try you luck in electronics lad.
Nathan Barnes
Theoretical physics is fine, it's just that a PhD is already a highly-trained specialist (which implies a higher salary for the employer for one), so it will be incredibly difficult to brand yourself as something else without doing some kind of extra formation.
I'm glad as fuck I went from theoretical physics to something more applicable before getting my master's.
Robert Adams
>without doing some kind of extra formation. Who the fuck arrives ready on the job anyway?
Jose Diaz
no
sad but true
Sadly, no. The 90s were intense, but now people is stuck. There are industries (integrability, amplitudes, bootstrap) but everything fades too fast.
I will look at them.
Brayden Nguyen
There's a difference between an electronics engineer working on a different subfield and someone who goes from th. physics to anything else (econ, eng, whatever).
You'd think the employer cares that you did research in the most difficult and competitive field of science there is, but they don't actually give a fuck. They want someone that can be useful to them as quickly as possible.
Nathaniel Long
Actually, I'm good at bakery and cooking in general. I might try that.
Jacob Sullivan
>so that you can start over with something worthwhile.
And by this I mean pure maths.
Christopher Miller
Don't become a janitor. I'm a janitor and all my friends and family kinda look down on me because of it. Only plus is it's pretty much stress free so I can do it even with severe anxiety.
Brandon White
At least when the revolution comes you'll be vindicated.
Hunter Williams
You can do applied math. And by that I mean go back to freshman math and learn statistics and probability.
Wyatt Nelson
that sucks but the proletariat will rise up anyway. if you are intelligent and make a genuine contribution to society with the skill you have and what you can do it's all that matters. big ups to you for putting up with that
Jeremiah Howard
you should be a decent coder by know so a code monkey job should be easy to land.
John Perez
Like applied physics?
Logan Garcia
This, maybe Antenna design, RF wave propagation. The high level theoretical EE stuff.
You could also learn programming if you got talent for it; writing computer models (programming) and working with numerical methods on some engineering stuff might also be an option.