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May I ask why „30 years ago“?

• adastra22 4y ago
  No OP, but another former physicist. There's not much career opportunity in that field, but physicists are eminently hireable in software engineering or investment banking.
  • was_a_dev 4y ago
    Current Physics PhD student here. Pretty much this is the case. Trying to not get spun out of academia is hard work, due to the limited opportunities. Especially is you're unable to move beyond your own country. Then the temptation of other jobs that easily pay three, four, fives times the salary creep in.
    • adastra22 4y ago
      And FAANG or investment banking pays even higher than then that.
      • was_a_dev 4y ago
        Potentially, there's a lower glass ceiling in the UK
        • adastra22 4y ago
          In engineering, probably not so much in banking. Unless you mean class barriers.
          • was_a_dev 4y ago
            I mean SE salaries aren't what you'd get in the US for FAANG. Banking in the city is probably the higher paid job in the UK
• plank 4y ago
  Did my PhD, when I started my studies there were 90 new students each year. Upon my promotion there were 30, and the faculty had merged(!). One of the groups (experimental, not my cup of tea) had been cancelled/stopped. I went into IT. A standard joke I used to say is that everyone who knows something about garden gnomes could go into IT. I knew nothing about garden gnomes (but learned myself C++ to [numerically] solve some nasty path integrals using object orientation) and easily adopted to the IT industry. (Started as a programmer, through DBA work (datawarehouse!), different software/data/business architecture, now a ‘portfolio manager’). I stopped being a physicist in 1997, so perhaps 30 year is overdoing it (26th year now, I guess).