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Long story short, I flunked out of grad school for a physics PhD last year. My advisor hired me on as an employee in the lab. Basically I made a grad student salary and worked like a grad student, but it wasn't towards a degree. Now I want to find a "real" job that I can actually support myself with. I figure having a letter of recommendation from him would be great if I ever decide to go back to grad school.
Anyway, I am looking at engineering jobs right now and... I can't see myself actually getting hired as an engineer. I know absolutely *nothing* required for any sort of engineering job. Electrical engineering is the closest discipline I can think of to physics, and not only did we not really do much with electronics... but even for something like RF engineering, they want you to know a lot about actual application and software that you'd use on the job.
What kind of engineering should I be looking at? What should I be doing to make myself more marketable? My "grad student" job was a lot of programming. It was a lab that did research on medical CT systems, so there was a lot of simulation and programming going on. However I don't think I'd be able to pick up an actual programming job since I still lack a lot of the fundamentals that a comp. sci. student learns.
I just feel like I know bits and pieces of *everything* and don't actually know enough to be useful to anyone. I just don't know what direction I should go in at this point...
Anyway, I am looking at engineering jobs right now and... I can't see myself actually getting hired as an engineer. I know absolutely *nothing* required for any sort of engineering job. Electrical engineering is the closest discipline I can think of to physics, and not only did we not really do much with electronics... but even for something like RF engineering, they want you to know a lot about actual application and software that you'd use on the job.
What kind of engineering should I be looking at? What should I be doing to make myself more marketable? My "grad student" job was a lot of programming. It was a lab that did research on medical CT systems, so there was a lot of simulation and programming going on. However I don't think I'd be able to pick up an actual programming job since I still lack a lot of the fundamentals that a comp. sci. student learns.
I just feel like I know bits and pieces of *everything* and don't actually know enough to be useful to anyone. I just don't know what direction I should go in at this point...