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>Or maybe we need to raise the global literacy rate so that we have more scientists available. Or maybe we start paying scientists living wages so anyone who c
by buzzkillington 6y ago
>Or maybe we need to raise the global literacy rate so that we have more scientists available.
Or maybe we start paying scientists living wages so anyone who can wipe their ass doesn't end up as a quant. Speaking as a quant with a physics phd working with another 400 phds in an hft firm.
- MiroF 6y agoThe financial incentives are seriously so misaligned. Likewise as a physics undergrad who considered going into academia and is now doing tech.
- lokimedes 6y agoI don’t have a day go by without thinking about doing something worthwhile with my (particle) physics phd. But that ridiculous combination of publish or perish, lousy pay and teaching not to mention the competition to stay in the field. Nah, I’ll choose living instead. But oh how I dream of a real career in physics with a higher goal than second-order marketing revenue.