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What other field would be best? I'm thinking about experimental cosmology. What are your thoughts on this field and marketability in industry? There is a lot of hands on electronics plus analysis.

You hit the spot regarding why I went into HEP. The worse thing is, I tried it out and wanted to continue in the field. Now that I've come to understand much more of what the field involves, I'm having second guesses and it's really a bad time to have second guesses since graduate school is...

was that stemming from sarcasm or were you serious?

So you raise a lot of good points for going into CM. I was just wondering what your opinions were as to why people enter high energy?

do you think exp. condensed matter would be any different?

I want to work ON lhc but not AT cern... for example, USCMS is located at fermilab so that is an alternative that I am willing to accept. However, if the project was ATLAS, there is no centralized location at the US so cern would be the only option. I assume that your opinion is that if I do not...

Is this a university in the US? Those that do get hired for professorship, does having good connections help in getting a job? For example, a good friend of yours is in university X with tenure track, would it be easier for you to get a position at university X?

ZapperZ, what would your thoughts on the current career for HEP be? More attractive than 08? Less attractive than 08?

By "they" do you mean the postdocs? Or do you mean physicists in general? Does prestige of the school play into account when getting a professorship?

what do you mean "you're probably screwed" if you have more than 2 postdoc positions? Why would you say this? And what would one do if they did have more than 2 postdoc positions? Become a research scientist their entire life? Or stay as a postdoc?

I would like to get a general sense of the life course of a physicists. I'm finishing up my ugrad. studies and moving on to graduate school so I know of the physicist's life course up to this point. I was wondering what happens at graduate school and further on? Specifically: Graduate...

I originally wanted to go into graduate school for exp. HEP. I now have several options for graduate studies and I'm now confused as to what to do. I want to work on particle physics specifically on the LHC experiments. However, I was told by my undergrad. advisor that after taking my...