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- From: andrew@rentec.com (Andrew Mullhaupt)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Jobs in Physics?
- Message-ID: <1408@kepler1.rentec.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 15:44:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec9.144501.2102@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Organization: Renaissance Technologies Corp., Setauket, NY.
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- In article <1992Dec9.144501.2102@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_bighamcp@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >"I want a job in Physics R&D". Easy to say, apparently not so easy to
- >find. I've tried Recruiters, Newspapers, Employment Agencies, Job Postings,
- >and word-of-mouth, all to no apparent avail.
- >
- >Can anyone give some helpfull advice as to where to look to find those
- >elusive entry-level research positions? Or is graduate school the only
- >avenue today? Are companies today not interested in recent-grads? Are
- >we doomed to the workplace where our bosses have the IQ's of spuds?
-
- Instead of starting another thread, I would suggest that you read the
- corresponding thread on academic vs. 'workplace' jobs in sci.math. Our
- firm has a HEP Ph. D. as our pricipal researcher in equities and we
- just hired a RHIC guy from Brookhaven. To be sure, the mathematicians
- outnumber the physicists by 7 to 2 on our research staff. Now I can
- make some claims that our work is not so different from math research,
- and it's even a little like some aspects of experimental physics (we
- _love_ signal processing) but I can't say that it's really physics research.
-
- But do the 'bosses' around here have the IQ of a spud? ( Not unless it's
- the 'space potato'. :-))
-
- Later,
- Andrew Mullhaupt
-
- P.S. With our three hires this year we're full up at the moment, but there
- are a lot of places similar to us which are looking now.
-