Recent content by Surf_and_Sky

Thanks @CrysPhys. What I had hoped to do was research and develop scientific instruments for robotic space exploration. I did have a postdoc at JPL, and I was successful with it. I published two scientific papers based on the research I did there. I did get to tinker with lab gadgets during that...

I'm in Utah. I appreciate your response on this. This is an expectations vs. reality thread, so I'll continue with that. Conventional wisdom and cultural narratives would state that it should have been positively raining jobs once I got my physics PhD. Well, that's not the reality. I'm still...

Hi Everyone. I graduated with a PhD in physics from UC Irvine. I'm struggling a bit in my career because I'm wondering if my expectations for the type of work that is actually available in industry to physics PhDs isn't really in line with reality. I spent my time in graduate school working in a...