Ask me ... about jobs in physics

Academics and lecturers in physics at the University of Melbourne did Q and A sessions with first year physics students. Here they talk about the amazing variety of jobs available to physics graduates.

[@betafractal9395]

The speakers have no idea what working outside of academia is like. Finding jobs with Physics / Math degrees ranges in difficulty. If you don't mind never using the level of physics you learn in college then there are plenty of jobs using basic math, think algebra, and maybe some statistics if you go into data science type job, but machine learning jobs are better, but even then you tend to use canned ML algorithms, nothing new, no time for research, because for your employer it's business. Academic jobs are highly sought after because after teaching, after faculty meetings you actually get paid to do research, and write papers, but not outside of academia, please the papers I've read by people in industry are 99% garbage and not on fundamental science, but related to specific job project that usually uses basic math.

[@umar_shahzad]

i completely agree

[@angelomontinola1476]

nice

[@physicslog]

Sad but true!

[@dannychenski687]

Ive gotten 1:54 a lot. It makes sense because I'm a first year, but yes, physicists are a thing

[@sikanderphysicsclasses5869]

Good explanation

[@davidwilkie9551]

"Clothes make the Man", (or Woman), but a Degree of any sort is a tool kit for the person who has aquired it intentionally for a purpose. All the policy based institutions with rituals and rote learning have a "one size fits all" attitude of conformity, with a labelling system of words ending in "ism, ist" etc. It isn't the purpose of the kind of adaptive confusion and hopeful investment of time and money, that Universities were designed to Research into practical categorizations, by the original search for meaning and "truth". Issac Newton's life path is the kind of messy brilliance that epitomizes a cultural shift, from Apprenticeships in learning by doing, to surreptitious replacement of ritualistic rote with scientific methodology. There's always a turbulent interface between calculated possibilities and memorized probabilities, that's life in the observable universe.

[@hitanshioza6847]

What are the field work options for a physicists?

[@sirzeeshanali8739]

Sir I'm studying in BS Physics 6th semester I want credit Transfer to Australia

[@gero5515]

Physical Oceanography??? What about it? Do you Will make very much money?

[@UPHROSHAN]

I'm completed physics career as master degree in India can I work in foreign.. If it is what are the requirements

[@humanrevelations1949]

The language?

[@ItzShehin]

@@humanrevelations1949 😂

[@relddirR]

Master in physics,aren't you kidding??I mean,look at your language!!

[@Ghost____Rider]

@@relddirR I guess they could improve their English, but c'mon that's a bit rude lmao.

[@bbom9197]

@@relddirR shut up

[@ryan124007]

physics leads to unemployment

[@derivativecovariant2341]

people dont realize apart from academia, u can start a career in quantitative finance and make a tons of money

[@sarveshp1727]

Fuck u

[@Brassard1985]

Get out of here with that bull crap. Physics is extremely versatile. While you may not find a job in physics, you can get a job in just about any other industry where problem solving, mathematics, and computer science/ programming are necessary skills. One that comes to mind is in the investment banking industry or quantitative analysis in the financial sector.