Should I Choose Astrophysics or Aeronautic Engineering for a Physics Career?

[lazer]

I have just completed my freshmen year. I want to do major in physics. I am really confused should I go with general physics or focus in some particular branch of it for a good career?
I do not want to be a professor doing major in physics but want to do some research and also earn good with my degree. I am interested in astrophysics. i am confused which one is better career option astrophysics or aeronautic engineering?

 

[Angry Citizen]

What about astrophysics interests you? If you're keen on plotting trajectories of spacecraft /asteroids/planets, then I'm sure an aerospace engineering degree focused on celestial mechanics would be very beneficial to you. If you want to model star formation, aerospace engineering isn't what you're wanting.

 

[eri]

There aren't a lot of jobs in astrophysics, and it doesn't have a lot of applications - so most of the jobs are at colleges and universities. If you want to avoid that, you won't be left with a ton of options. And it doesn't pay nearly as well as some of the other, more practical fields of physics that you can use to get an industry job - like optics, condensed matter, medical physics, biophysics, materials science, and more.