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I recently found this on facebook.
It makes sense to me and addresses some common complaints on what one might study:
It makes sense to me and addresses some common complaints on what one might study:
I would have said they go on to make more money than professional scientists, but recent threads about employment rates make me hesitate.Demystifier said:I solve PDE's for work quite often. But I'm a professional scientist, so I guess it doesn't count. :D
What do people with math or physics major do if they do not become scientists? I guess most of them become programmers of a kind, so maybe solving PDE's is not something what most of them do.
I haven't seen that threads, what do they say?Haborix said:I would have said they go on to make more money than professional scientists, but recent threads about employment rates make me hesitate.
Here is a thread. I was somewhat surprised to see the unemployment rate of physics people higher than other majors I might have naively thought would be less employable. I didn't really dig in to see if there was some harmless reason for the higher rate (for example, it might take a physics person longer to find a job but when they did it paid better than average).Demystifier said:I haven't seen that threads, what do they say?
They are engineers, damn near all of them*. That's what the corporations want them to do. They'll make a lot more money from someone that can make a better laser or semiconductor, than someone that works with topology, cosmology, or high energy physics. They'll drive a nicer car and live in a better place than most academic types.Demystifier said:What do people with math or physics major do if they do not become scientists?
Well, some engineers also need to solve PDE's, don't they?DaveE said:They are engineers, damn near all of them*.
Yep. Plus they need to know where the common solutions came from because they've solved them, like, 100 times before. Then they might not need to do it again, or they might be really quick if they do.Demystifier said:Well, some engineers also need to solve PDE's, don't they?
I was a math major and was just short of a minor in physics, but I became a lawyer.Demystifier said:What do people with math or physics major do if they do not become scientists? I guess most of them become programmers of a kind, so maybe solving PDE's is not something what most of them do.
Logical thinking certainly helps in being a lawyer.ohwilleke said:I was a math major and was just short of a minor in physics, but I became a lawyer.
Pluses and minuses. I've never been good at making totally illogical arguments that somehow win the day. Some people are good at that.Demystifier said:Logical thinking certainly helps in being a lawyer.
This is the world that I live in every day!Vanadium 50 said:"Your honor, my client didn't steal the jewelry and anyway, promises to return it."