I just switched from physics to engineering, and oh boy am I glad I did! Physics was taking me nowhere except to a life of poverty and being an eternal post-doc or sessional (the ever-increasing part-time faculty that get paid a sixth of what tenured faculty make and work twice as much).
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Couldn't agree more, this is exactly the trap you should make sure you are not going to fall prey to.
I decided to major in physics because I had a somewhat overly romantic view of it. I thought I would be unraveling the secrets of the universe, discovering the truth of all things. Instead...