Can I ask what job you do with your Physics degree?

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DS is in his third year and has been accepted for his Masters. All smashing and I was just wondering where a degree in Physics might take him.

He's not asking btw, this is just me wondering.

Anyone?

Lots of physicists end up in radiation protection or medical physics or similar

srp-uk.org/careers/employers

www.ipem.ac.uk/CareersJobs.aspx

Interesting, reasonably well paid, varied, can be very secure, can be family friendly.

Thank you, that's a great site and a very interesting read.

There's always teaching

Physics teachers are in very high demand.

But I think an interesting future is sustainable technology, renewables, efficiency, batteries etc.

I've been a teacher. I work in the nuclear sector now. Out of my physics cohort at uni, several are teachers, some are engineers, some work for national labs like NPL, some do secret stuff for GCHQ, some are computer programmers, quite a few are academics, one even works on a space programme. There are a few who went into finance and patent law. It's a very employable degree.

I became an accountant with mine. The city and IT companies are full of people with maths and physics degrees.

DB does developing & giving technical training in the area of mobile phone transmission technology (eg 4G, 5G).

The vast majority of graduate jobs dint specify a degree subject meaning there are lots of graduate schemes open to him.....the skills he will have developed are valued by many employers.
You could also look at the prospects website as they is a great section on 'what can I do with my degree'

My physics graduate husband is a police detective

Dh did physics and astrophysics and is a software developer. I did maths at the same time and there was a lot of overlap between the two, we had the same textbooks and studied the same subjects, although I did more stats and he did more erm...stargazing I suppose. My point is that if you consider maths a nice all round general subject as I do, physics is very similar.

My ex has a physics degree and is a banker.

I'm a clinical scientist in radiation protection, as someone else mentioned above. Other people from my cohort mostly went into academia, teaching, accountancy or investment banking.

Loads of physicists at my place, mainly Communications and data science // AI. me I am doing sustainability..energy, carbon and resources all in scope. Physics really well respected in industry as it's generally broad and practical

Ex-dp has a physics degree and works in cyber security now!

My grandson is just one of 7 in his first year at 6 th form doing physics a level
There’s a mother 6 form in town with probably around the same amount of students
Should some more drop out and just a few complete their degree I imagine these physic graduates are going to be in short supply

Some of my contemporaries:

Software development
Academia
Any maths / numerate career
Government advisors
Researchers in private companies
Banking
Working in physics based organisations, accelerators, telescopes, magnets, etc

I reckon physicists make great actuaries - they can cope with some serious maths, and they are familiar with modelling complexity. If he's got interest in finance / insurance / statistics it's worth considering.

My brother- in-law has a physics degree and earns pots of money in the City as a broker.
If your DS doesn't fancy that, physics teachers are rarer than hens teeth and will never struggle to get a job.

Following.

DS got his degree in physics and is still looking...

I’m really hoping my DC push through with physics. DF was a physicist and would be so chuffed.

Hi OP
After my physics degree I did another degree in radiography as I liked the application of physics to help people
My physics buddies do a mixture of patent office work and finance

My husband is a lawyer with a VG physics degree. He didn’t want to take it further and was snapped up by a lawyer firm who paid for his GDL and LPC. He did corporate law although now does more VC stuff and does a lot of COO type stuff in his place so loads of spreadsheets and analysis

I went into teaching (I hated it), and then got an office based job, where I'm still at 15 years later, nothing to do with my degree

I went into medical physics. Of physicists I know - teachers, nuclear industry, technical sound engineering, science education (runs a company who do science shows), a few academics, software modelling, finance, medical physics, radiation protection and software engineering.

I love seeing all the physicists on here!

Science editor.
DH (physics/astrophysics) is a software engineer amongst other things.

Of our contemporaries:
Rocket scientist
Climate change scientist
Accountant
Technology transfer advisor
Another editor
Vicar's wife (x2, now I come to think of it)

Thinking of my cohort - academia, industrial R&D, banking, accountancy, teaching, climate science, code breaking at GCHQ, even a vicar!