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 (e

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).