Re:Grad School and Public Health
by frickinLasers on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:59PM
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I'd take a post-doc simply to avoid either of those careers.
Hahaha, some of the people I considered the most academic in my physics cohort are going consulting.
After 5-6 years of making 25k per year and working long hours (which is not bad given the cost-of-living where I was in grad school is low), the salary becomes a very real draw.
Honestly, the trend I seeing is that weaker students -ie can't find data science or consulting jobs- move on to post-docs.
Although, there are the dedicated few academics that also move on to post-docs as well.
Physics research always involves statistics, cough, 'machine learning' cough so that's how people are selling it these days.