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Nyxie
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Thread title says sums up my question. I'd like to know if there are many paying jobs that focus almost exclusively if not entirely on research. I'm interested in theoretical research jobs in math or physics other than being a professor.
I don't want to teach, and it has become very hard to land a place in academia these days, or so I hear.
Yet I want to do mainly/only theoretical research without being cut off from fellow scientists (when I become a full-fledged scientist) much more than I fear grading papers, preparing tests and delivering lectures all the time. I suppose you could work at CERN or something but even there many people are from universities. I don't know. All I know is what I've always wanted to do.
I mean I could be a janitor like Good Will Hunting and do maths/physics in spare time but come on, isolation isn't conducive to good research. Einstein did it at the patent office, but I'm not Einstein.
I just wanted to know if there are alternatives to academia in pure math or theoretical physics. I can handle a good deal of applied work; I actually think it's important, but I mostly want to do more fundamental stuff (if it turns out that I'm capable). God I do not like the sound of working in industry.
Are there any such jobs? From this, it doesn't look like it: http://www.aps.org/careers/educator/bestpractices/index.cfm
I don't want to teach, and it has become very hard to land a place in academia these days, or so I hear.
Yet I want to do mainly/only theoretical research without being cut off from fellow scientists (when I become a full-fledged scientist) much more than I fear grading papers, preparing tests and delivering lectures all the time. I suppose you could work at CERN or something but even there many people are from universities. I don't know. All I know is what I've always wanted to do.
I mean I could be a janitor like Good Will Hunting and do maths/physics in spare time but come on, isolation isn't conducive to good research. Einstein did it at the patent office, but I'm not Einstein.
I just wanted to know if there are alternatives to academia in pure math or theoretical physics. I can handle a good deal of applied work; I actually think it's important, but I mostly want to do more fundamental stuff (if it turns out that I'm capable). God I do not like the sound of working in industry.
Are there any such jobs? From this, it doesn't look like it: http://www.aps.org/careers/educator/bestpractices/index.cfm