nun
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I'm lucky, I have a well paying academic job. However, I've been looking around for a more stimulating job for at least 2 years, mostly because I could ER now and I just want a bit more fun. I'm well qualified with lots of management experience, a PhD in physics and a resume that includes Harvard, NASA and a couple of defence contractors. It seems that for a 50 year old physicist there are very few jobs in the US outside of defence and even those jobs are hard to come by because of the fear of big budget cuts. I recently spoke to friends at Northrop and they are having big layoffs and the only defence job I've been offered was as a contractor where I'd have to pay my own benefits. NASA isn't hiring and very few private companies have the work that is suited to my skills. I could get a job programming, but that's not building hardware which is want I really want to do. So I'm looking overseas, or I might just pull the plug....what does this say about the state of US high tech? or is it just that physicists are yesterday's scientists and I should have done molecular biology.
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