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I’m a physics major currently in the second semester of my first year at a US university. I have recently become very anxious about my future with a physics degree. Don’t get me wrong, I love physics.
One semester in, I’m doing very well academically. However, I’ve heard a lot of negativity directed towards physics majors’ job opportunities after graduation. Ideally, I would go to graduate school after getting my bachelor’s (it has yet to be decided what I will study in graduate school, whether I will go for a Master’s or a PhD, etc.).
But suppose, for whatever reason, that doesn’t work out. How common is it for physics majors who don’t immediately go on to graduate school to have a job lined up? This is important to me because I don’t have any family in the US to support me in case I need to wait a few months before an offer.
If I graduate without a job and without a graduate school acceptance, I will literally be homeless. I am not willing to switch to something more “marketable,” because I would feel ashamed and wouldn’t be able to study properly.
One semester in, I’m doing very well academically. However, I’ve heard a lot of negativity directed towards physics majors’ job opportunities after graduation. Ideally, I would go to graduate school after getting my bachelor’s (it has yet to be decided what I will study in graduate school, whether I will go for a Master’s or a PhD, etc.).
But suppose, for whatever reason, that doesn’t work out. How common is it for physics majors who don’t immediately go on to graduate school to have a job lined up? This is important to me because I don’t have any family in the US to support me in case I need to wait a few months before an offer.
If I graduate without a job and without a graduate school acceptance, I will literally be homeless. I am not willing to switch to something more “marketable,” because I would feel ashamed and wouldn’t be able to study properly.
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