Recent content by blade2011

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    Changing fields in postdoc, career routes, etc

    Thanks for the replies everyone. Twofish-quant, its one thing to get any kind of job, and its quite another to get one whose description overlaps your background isn't it? Also, you have raised an interesting point - why does a person who has a PhD have to be paid more? Understandably, phd in...
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    Changing fields in postdoc, career routes, etc

    Sorry if I sound like wanting to switch careers in the middle of phd, but I am wondering how 'credible' my undergrad ee major will be a few years from now when I graduate with a phd in theoretical physics, I would be seen not to have been doing engineering for a while...basically I want to know...
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    Changing fields in postdoc, career routes, etc

    Will the engineering degree help after my PhD in theoretical physics (for instance)?
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    Changing fields in postdoc, career routes, etc

    As a second year graduate student, I've been working in a quantum chromodynamics group for some time. I haven't published, but I am getting interested in many other things such as condensed matter physics, quantum computing, etc. Also I had an engineering degree with a physics minor, and...