Recent content by ema9u

I was wondering about the situation with regards to teaching high school physics and the extent that it is a viable path for those with a MS and/or a PhD in physics. I have heard it said numerous times, on physics forums and in my physics department, that many high schools are starved for...

Thanks for the suggestion. I plan to do that as I know that a postdoc will pay more and I plan on living at least as frugally as a postdoc as I am living now, and may even cut back and am working on making sure I have enough $$$ saved so that I can pay as much of it as possible before I even...

Thanks for reminding me. BTW, do you have an answer for the question I posted above?

I asked this in the career thread so before ti gets pointed out I would like to note I realized this, but since this forum may have a different set of respondents who read these forums, i figured I would ask it here too. So more about my situation: I am now in the process of completing a...

This is for anyone who is currently a PhD student in physics or has completed a PhD sometime in the recent past, i.e. within 4-5 years ago or so. This is meant to be a follow up to another question i asked earlier. Of everyone who know who has gotten a Physics PhD, what percentage of them...

I also note that in another thread you said that the job prospects for Phsyics PhDs without corporate experience at all before getting the PHD were abysmal, that they were all in postdocs or in Asia or unemployed or in unskilled labor. I don't understand why having a Physics PhD would have...

Experimental nuclear physics, non - High Energy. Is that bad?

Well the "reports" actually by and large come from people on this forum. One poster said that the respondents to the aip are those who elect to respond and therefore is too heavily skewed towards those with good jobs; those who are employed or underemployed are not giving aip data because they...

That aip report looks good, but I hear all these reports about how the data is seriously *fudged* and that the unemployment for physics PhDs is between 20 and 30 %, a huge, catastrophic number. Apparently because the aip biases its samples because they are trying to hide negative facts. That...

So I have been reading this forum for a while and I have heard more than a few people say things like the employment rate for physics PhDs is worse than it is in the humanities and way, WAY worse than for med school, so that doing a physics PhD as opposed to a med school degree is a huge...