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re: Know anybody who has a Physics Degree

Posted on 8/24/15 at 12:28 pm to
Posted by volod
Leesville, LA
Member since Jun 2014
5392 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 12:28 pm to
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Come up to Knoxville and work to get an internship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 


Thanks. I will definitely look into this.
Posted by EA6B
TX
Member since Dec 2012
14754 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 12:45 pm to
Go to where corporations that are technology centered are located. Austin for example, look at the semiconductor companies, search their job listings. Many of the jobs will have flexible education requirements, requiring a B.S. degree in engineering, computer science, math or a related science. They may not explicitly say physics, but they will be more than willing to consider a physics B.S. for the positions.

Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
21414 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:15 pm to
I know someone with an undergrad Physics degree from Southern. She does project management, Process Improvement, and Six Sigma type of work. She used to work for NASA and Nissan. Now she works for a major hospital system.
Posted by HarryBalzack
Member since Oct 2012
15507 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:19 pm to
My aunt's brother has one. He works for IBM, out in Austin. Been there for thirty years.

I don't know if that's still a possibility, though.
Posted by jfturner212
1176 Bob Pettit Boulevard
Member since Nov 2004
5533 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:32 pm to
I had a temp in my office with a physics degree. He would get the mail and refill the coffee machine. He was decent at it. That's all I got.
Posted by crankbait
Member since Feb 2008
11625 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:33 pm to
has anyone said Gaston yet? If not, just so everyone knows, he is the smartest person in this thread
Posted by Ebrow21
Lutcher, La.
Member since Apr 2015
49 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:39 pm to
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Good friend went through this program and makes a very good living for himself; with a master's degree. Plenty of job opportunities in this specialization.


Posted by The Easter Bunny
Minnesota
Member since Jan 2005
45592 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:56 pm to
quote:

I know someone with an undergrad Physics degree from Southern. She does project management, Process Improvement, and Six Sigma type of work. She used to work for NASA and Nissan. Now she works for a major hospital system.


Sounds absolutely awful
Posted by doublecutter
Hear & Their
Member since Oct 2003
6700 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:26 pm to
One of my f r at brothers got a degree in physics. He's a M.D. now.
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
Member since Mar 2008
40599 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:29 pm to
I got my degree in physics (UT Austin) and used the software development skills I gained to get a solid career in ERP consulting. Probably do much better than I would have had I stayed in physics.
Posted by LSUwag
Florida man
Member since Jan 2007
17428 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:34 pm to
My brother in law has a Masters in Physics. He is managing the cleanup job at Carlsbad New Mexico. It it a big project. He makes $$$.
Posted by M. A. Ryland
silver spring, MD
Member since Dec 2005
2075 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 8:35 pm to
I got my Physics BS from LSU.
Went on to get PhD at U Maryland.
I now do Radar (design, build, develop algorithms, etc...). Not what I studies in grad school!

We consider Physics to be one of the best degrees when hiring.
You generally get really smart people who like to really understand the stuff they are working on.
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
39900 posts
Posted on 8/24/15 at 9:10 pm to
Up at Wallops? I've been traveling up there to work on Pad 0A and almost all of the scientist I meet work radar. I haven't met you at Chatties have I?
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