I have the impression that a non-negligible number of physics graduates (perhaps more among physics PhDs?) go into finance and do very well there. If that’s right, perhaps it should be called out explicitly; it might be a useful counterpoint to the alleged relatively low earnings, for those who care about that. (With the usual set of pros and cons: can be scarily well paid; may be very hard work; many finance jobs have zero or negative social value; etc.)
My guess is that most people who study physics at university have some ambition to be academic physicists, discover new fundamental laws of nature, etc., and don’t really care that much about money—but if it happens to be the case that there’s a fairly natural path from studying physics to getting rich, then mentioning the fact may be helpful to students who care more about money than the average.
I have the impression that a non-negligible number of physics graduates (perhaps more among physics PhDs?) go into finance and do very well there. If
Yeah, I thought about writing about this, maybe I’ll add some material about it. Note that physics PhDs may have been able to get jobs in finance almost as good right out of college, making substantially more by the time they’d have reached the age at which they got their physics PhD.
I have the impression that a non-negligible number of physics graduates (perhaps more among physics PhDs?) go into finance and do very well there. If that’s right, perhaps it should be called out explicitly; it might be a useful counterpoint to the alleged relatively low earnings, for those who care about that. (With the usual set of pros and cons: can be scarily well paid; may be very hard work; many finance jobs have zero or negative social value; etc.)
My guess is that most people who study physics at university have some ambition to be academic physicists, discover new fundamental laws of nature, etc., and don’t really care that much about money—but if it happens to be the case that there’s a fairly natural path from studying physics to getting rich, then mentioning the fact may be helpful to students who care more about money than the average.
Yeah, I thought about writing about this, maybe I’ll add some material about it. Note that physics PhDs may have been able to get jobs in finance almost as good right out of college, making substantially more by the time they’d have reached the age at which they got their physics PhD.