Physics majors:

Why major in physics?
Very low return on investment, there are less jobs in physics then there are physics majors. It's the next law bubble. Plus you get paid the peanut prices and get laddled with student debt? Why would you major in this risky degree?

I wish I had majored in physics, they are the one science field that can transition pretty well into engineering or general industry

Because it was the only thing that didn't make me want to kill myself while I was working on it.

this. you don't "get a job in physics" with an undergrad physics degree. you work in industry, then go get your PhD if you want to, and only then once you have a PhD in physics you might have a chance of getting a "job in physics".

This sounds like the question of a comp sci fag.

Because it’s interesting you knowledgelet

Because my crippling depression made me realize everything aside from hard sciences and maths would eventually make me kill myself

>>jobs in physics then there are physics majors
>>Why would you major in this risky degree

>implying degree title == job title
>implying college is job training

>low return on investment
[citation needed]
>less jobs in physics than physics majors
Not every physics major ends up as a physicist, as has been stated in this thread already
>peanuts
True, there's not a lot of money in this. That's not why we do it.
>student debt
I have zero debt

>risky degree
Things are only risky if you're relying on luck to begin with. If you want to be a physicist, there's no luck involved. Just effort.

So you're throwing your money and youth away because 'b-but it's neat'

Let me guess, your "safe major" looked like this:

>F1
Precalculus (W-F)
Programming in Python

>S1
Precalculus 1
Programming in Java
Fundamentals of IT

>F2
Precalculus 2
OOP Programming
Web Development

>S2
Calculus 1 (W-F)
Discrete Math 1
Data Structures in Java

>F3
Extended Calculus 1 (W-F)
Discrete Math 2
Computer Organization (actually just 85% Programming in C)
Databases and mySQL Programming

>S3
Extended Calculus 1
Unix System Programming
Algorithms Design
Functional Programming in Lisp

>F4
Extended Calculus 2 (W-F)
Networking in Java
Design Pattern in Software Engineering
GUI programming and UX

>S4
Extended Calculus 2
Windows System Programming
Phone Development
ML and Data Mining libraries and R Programming

yes

I love the work and research I do right now, I don't and never will have any student debt thanks to scholarships, and I'm either gonna go back to school for a PhD and spend like 6 years doing research on something I love or I'm gonna run off and join the French Foreign Legion and bleed to death somewhere in Africa so who gives a fuck

Yeah I like learning things. What would I do with the money I made doing something else? (Answer: study physics).

Interestingly, physics was my second choice after the legion (found out while I was getting my fitness up to apply that I have a bad leg).

Sorry lad
Maybe you can "accidentally" get hit by a car and replace the bad leg with one of those neat blades
Not sure if I would ever actually join the Legion but I always fantasizing about it as a bit of an escape plan. I think everybody has a secret desire to leave everything behind and start over every now and then.

>precalculus 5

And what if it does? The benefits to this course include a) job after college and b) financial security which physics majors do not have.

A graduating student in my physics PhD program has been offered more jobs in silicon valley than you've even considered as an option. I think he's going to work for Google, but they may not have even given him the best offer. It's been over a year since they contacted him.

Research is where good ideas are born, and where intelligent people really get to show off what they can do. You don't get that by doing something considered "safe" by the industry workers.

Why is it so incredibly difficult for cs fags to wrap their heads around the idea that not everyone bases every decision in their life on maximizing the amount of money they earn every year? My next choice after physics was actually english because it's something I want to study, and learning about things you want to learn about should be why you go to college. If you can't grasp that, you should've gone to HVAC school for all those stellar career opportunities.

not maximizing the amount of money you earn

>tfw i was once a retarded 18 year old
>tfw once I got my own place and responsibilities "hurr durr money doesn't matter!" went out the window
Some day you'll grow up too.

Haha yeah you're such a wise, world-weary 23 year old that sees the world in its true colors

Lmao I can't wait. You will be moving right back in with your parents with nothing to show for having a botched college experience being shut in your room 24f/7.

Only brainlets have issues finding jobs.
As long as you can network, you can get pretty much whatever job you want.

>Get told to do a degree in a subject you love
>Do a degree which results in low salary

Well done. Now you have a useless degree, lots of debt and probably a job you hate too

>As long as you can network, you can get pretty much whatever job you want.
Nice meme you have here.

So can you be a Medical Doctor, a Astronaut, a Pianist or Hollywood Director if you want with just a BSc in math or Physics?

It's so simple right?

>Your only options are CS, engineering, or a life in permanent debt in your mom's basement
Absolutely delusional

Didn't say that, just said the whole "do a degree you love" rhetoric is a meme if you want a comfy life.

You don't need a degree to pursue your interests.

My life has been comfy the past three years doing what I love. If I got a CS degree and knew I would spend the rest of my life doing that my brains would be spattered all over a wall by now, which does not a comfy life make.
Why are you so determined to shit on people for making choices you wouldn't make?

>not having the learning be the reward
Vaishya_talking_to_a_Brahmin.jpg
This sort of retardation is why warriors are better regarded. We have intellectuals talking to aspiring soldiers in this thread with no friction and the merchant doesn’t grasp it.

>implying life without learning would be “comfy”

I am planning to major in physics and from reading OP get destroyed in this thread my faith in physics majors has been renewed

Which is exactly why I majored in History. :^)

You have no idea how the industry looks and why knowledgeable individuals like physicists especially in fields like photonics, materials engineering and biomedical engineering might be needed.

If you think you major in your job, you've alredy failed and will be one of the people who complain that STEM degree didn't land them a good job no matter what major you choose.

Even in Silicon Valley I know a lot of physics grads getting hired as software engineers specifically due to their academic background into some pretty cushy positions that are better than what your average Arkansas State CS grad is going to get. I mean sure the guys I know doing this already had tons of programming experience through self studying but still.

desu the most intense recruitment I've witnessed in our university has been in the quantum optics and optoelectronics department, where a good dozen of companies a year comes around to recruit some fresh PhDs. I'll agree with the fact that if you're doing some high energy, theoretical physics and astro you better develop some strong statistical and programming skills if you plan to leave the academa tho.

Going to college for intellectual enrichment is reserved for people who either have their shit 100% paid for or have parents so rich that it doesn't matter. If you drop 6 figures just to mentally masturbate then you're retarded.

Why the would would I major in something brainlet tier like engineering when I can literally pick it up any time I want and convince the employer that I'm literally the best he could get.

L m a o

at brainlet CS and eng cucks

Imagine being so much of a brainlet that you have student debt.

buying food would be a good choice

Food is fucking gay and you’re a dedicationlet if you let it get in the way. Money can be acquired through all sorts of means, productive and not. People who are homeless and addicted to heroin can get enough money together to support a heroin habit.

>People who are homeless and addicted to heroin can get enough money together to support a heroin habit.
They get free money from Government social programs, paid by tax payers

so you could be a pig fucker, it's just a question of getting the money
nice

Or do gay for pay/work as an escort and gay pornstar.