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TheGeometrist
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Hello all,
I am currently a sophomore enrolled at a state university, with generally good STEM education (regularly ranked top 50 in the US in engineering, cs, physics, astronomy, etc). I am a Physics major CS minor at this particular moment, mainly because I seem to particularly enjoy physics. However, since I've only taken courses through Thermo and Wave Motion in the subject, I suppose it is not really fair to say whether I love it or not yet.
To get straight to the point, I recently discovered some news that has "snapped me out" of a generally happy go lucky view on education, and greatly motivated me to consider job prospects straight out of college. Let's just say there's a proverbial bun in my lady's oven. Before anyone says not to base my major purely on job prospects, I should state that I generally like learning any topic. Even through high school and to now, I haven't taken any classes that I would consider a waste or that boring. Any learning is growth to me, and I just love the pursuit of knowledge.
Finally I think I've bored you enough with my life story to get to the question(s):
Is a physics major or applied math major, with an engineering minor enough to get employed as an engineer? To answer a question before it is asked, I can't switch to an engineering major and graduate in four years and that is extremely important to me given my dependence on my four year scholarship.
In addition, job prospects for high school teachers in physics and math are still great, right? I believe I would enjoy teaching high school as much as anything else, given how much I love teaching people the many neat and interesting things I learn in my classes (even if they don't love hearing about it lol). On the topic of the not so hot salaries of teachers, that's fine with me, I'm just aiming to find a job I would enjoy straight out of college more or less.
I apologize in advance if these questions have been asked dozens of times, but I've failed to find threads on difficulty of finding employability of physics/applied math with a minor in eng, and how that affects salary. In addition, I feel that I've seen half the people say you can easily find a job as a physics or math teacher, and half say teacher job prospects aren't too great now either.
Thanks for reading. Best wishes.
-The Geometrist
I am currently a sophomore enrolled at a state university, with generally good STEM education (regularly ranked top 50 in the US in engineering, cs, physics, astronomy, etc). I am a Physics major CS minor at this particular moment, mainly because I seem to particularly enjoy physics. However, since I've only taken courses through Thermo and Wave Motion in the subject, I suppose it is not really fair to say whether I love it or not yet.
To get straight to the point, I recently discovered some news that has "snapped me out" of a generally happy go lucky view on education, and greatly motivated me to consider job prospects straight out of college. Let's just say there's a proverbial bun in my lady's oven. Before anyone says not to base my major purely on job prospects, I should state that I generally like learning any topic. Even through high school and to now, I haven't taken any classes that I would consider a waste or that boring. Any learning is growth to me, and I just love the pursuit of knowledge.
Finally I think I've bored you enough with my life story to get to the question(s):
Is a physics major or applied math major, with an engineering minor enough to get employed as an engineer? To answer a question before it is asked, I can't switch to an engineering major and graduate in four years and that is extremely important to me given my dependence on my four year scholarship.
In addition, job prospects for high school teachers in physics and math are still great, right? I believe I would enjoy teaching high school as much as anything else, given how much I love teaching people the many neat and interesting things I learn in my classes (even if they don't love hearing about it lol). On the topic of the not so hot salaries of teachers, that's fine with me, I'm just aiming to find a job I would enjoy straight out of college more or less.
I apologize in advance if these questions have been asked dozens of times, but I've failed to find threads on difficulty of finding employability of physics/applied math with a minor in eng, and how that affects salary. In addition, I feel that I've seen half the people say you can easily find a job as a physics or math teacher, and half say teacher job prospects aren't too great now either.
Thanks for reading. Best wishes.
-The Geometrist
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