Permanent Prosperity without a Permanent Job
Truly permanent jobs in physics are rare and getting rarer. There is also no guarantee that in these times of ever accelerating change that a […]
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Permanent Employment in Physics: Altering the Deal
Physics is a contemplative and meticulous profession. Most physicist I know simply want to concentrate on the problems that interest them and ignore everything peripheral […]
“Don’t Become a Scientist!” 15 Years Later
Have you ever read “Don’t Become a Scientist!” by Jonathan I. Katz? It was mildly famous among the people I knew around the turn of […]
The Five Roles of a Physicist
What do physicists get paid to do? I recently wrote about a physicist’s need to consider and understand the business aspects of the work they […]
Bridging The Valley of Graduate School
The average physics PhD student takes 6.3 years to graduate. That is a long time. For most, graduate school starts on a high note. The […]