Experimental physics as a career..

Abidal Sala

Hi, I have numerous questions concerning experimental physics..
If you want to be an experimental physicist what can you study? I would like to study particle physics and quantum mechanics.. are they well involved?
Also does anyone know if experimental physicists have a good income? what's the average salary? and what are your chances of getting employed?

Thanks in advance

chill_factor

Modern physics is all involves quantum mechanics to some degree. The closest to pure quantum mechanics is atomic/molecular/optical physics. As you guessed, it has alot to do with optics. So how do you like optics?

Particle has little to do with atomic/molecular/optical. That's mostly programming and statistics from what I understand.