Help me choose my life career :(

[PhySom]

Ladies and Gentlemen i have entered crossroads in my life. I have been delaying this choice for years , yet it has reared its head with an intense ferocity. I humbly plead for your assistance.

As a young man , i fell in love with theoretical physics. Einstein , Max Planck , Newton , Schrodinger, Dirac and Feynmen were all my platonic lovers from the tender age of grade 3.

I succinctly remember reading physics religiously and curiously wondering how i could join the modern prophets of physics.

I am soon graduating in a bachelors of Electrical Engineering and Quantum Physics. I have to choose a path of engineering or physics, my parents are pushing for engineering due to its lucrativeness but i am cautious.

I want to transform the landscape of quantum physics with my ideas and burn myself into the ashes of history. I ask for your advice my kin.

What would you do?

May the lord bless you for each second in typing and curse the derailing heathens.

 

[VixR]

It depends on what’s important to you, but if I were in your shoes, I’d choose the engineering route from my observation.

You could still make parts of your free time about physics.

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[ABG]

Physics was one of my double majors, it also was a childhood passion of mine and I often romanticized of being a Physicist .I think there are a few things to note.

1. Like all fields it’s about making connections. Talking to anyone friendly in an industry you’d like to enter is a must for every college graduate looking to be employed beyond entry level, undegreed entry level anyway. An entry level job in industry that requires a degree is most likely what you’ll land even with connections.
   
   
2. Physics tends to be a ‘Jack of All trades’ type of degree. A lot of of jobs will say chemistry or related science, biology or related science, etc. The nice thing is that physics counts as a related science in all of these fields. This is where the stuff you heard during undergrad comes from. We are very employable in a lot of fields. Unfortunately you won’t be doing physics in any of these jobs. Or very few at least.
   
   
3. Very few jobs outside of engineering will use the physics you learn in undergrad. This is why a lot of people think it’s useless. There is no ‘Physics Industry’ outside of academia really. Apart from consulting, engineering, and a few observatories there is no job undergrad physics equips you for. There is plenty you could get into but none of it will be actually doing physics
   
   
   
4. The one obligatory mention I have is teaching. Even without a teaching degree it’s something you can get into because there is so little competition most places. If Physics is really a passion you have teaching high school physics could be fulfilling to you. You get okay money and get to do physics every single day. Not to mention, summers off.

Great job on finishing and best of luck to you in the future.

 

[Muji]

Learn how to program

 

[AussieHustler]

Got a friend who taught physics (plus a teaching diploma) at a high school for two years and he became disillusioned working in schools and returned back to finish his post graduate. He’s now a researcher with CSIRO. Why don’t you give a ring these guys and pay them a visit. That’s exactly what he did.

 

[CaliTedesse]

When I think of a physicist or physics student I think of a big nerd with pants pulled over his belly button and those overalls that they wear over their shoulders that sh1t forgot the name kkk but you get my point. Wallahi the physics department out here is filled with nerds with no possible social skills they just stay quiet like zombies and smell like xaar.

Akhi if I was you I'd choose engineering but can't you become a researcher with physics? I don't understand.

Kkk good luck in your choice

 

[riyaale]

this will help

 

[Aliobaba]

Work at the airport fly for freeeeeeeee

 

[Libaaxseendheer]

Pray 2 rak'a and ask for God's assistance in choosing.

 

[Abdalla]

If you're mathematically and analytically gifted, go where the big money is made. I have a feeling you do not care about morality nor religion. Engineering is peanuts compared to where you can make large chunk of money. Go into banking, they love people with STEM background. There's no room for blacks in the history books. Even if you invent something, they'll give credit to your white coworkers, or they'd give you a white name. They hid the fact that traffic lights was invented by a black guy, or the first doctor to successfully treat blue baby syndrome was a blackie.

Go for the easy route and choose for the money like your negroe ancestors.