{"id":848,"date":"2014-04-21T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/?p=848"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T19:41:35","slug":"what-are-you-going-to-do-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2014\/04\/21\/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you going to do with that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/degreeofsatisfaction.blogspot.com\">new blog<\/a> by the noted cosmologist Lloyd Knox. Once per month, he&#8217;ll interview \u00a0someone with a degree in physics about their career choices and experiences. The <a href=\"http:\/\/degreeofsatisfaction.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/greg-spooner-medical-device-physicist.html\">first interview<\/a>, with a medical device physicist, is up.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a great idea. People don&#8217;t have a clear sense of the variety of things that you can do with a physics education. I frequently have parents of prospective students ask me, in a worried tone, whether their children will be able to get jobs after majoring in physics. The answer, of course, is yes: people with physics degrees do very well in the job market. The American Institute of Physics has lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aip.org\/statistics\/employment\">statistics<\/a> on this, such as these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.36.29-PM.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.36.29-PM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-852\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.36.29-PM1-300x278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.36.29-PM1-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.36.29-PM1.png 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.35.51-PM2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-853\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.35.51-PM2-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.35.51-PM2-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/files\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-21-at-3.35.51-PM2.png 631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(both from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aip.org\/sites\/default\/files\/statistics\/employment\/bachinitemp-p-10.pdf\">this document<\/a>). But the statistics don&#8217;t give a good sense of the variety of things people do with their physics degrees, so Lloyd&#8217;s plan to let people tell their stories sounds great.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the new blog by the noted cosmologist Lloyd Knox. Once per month, he&#8217;ll interview \u00a0someone with a degree in physics about their career choices and experiences. The first interview, with a medical device physicist, is up. I think this is a great idea. People don&#8217;t have a clear sense of the variety of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2014\/04\/21\/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are you going to do with that?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}