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My parents are pressuring me to become a medical medico merely I don't really want to. I mean, I rather get a medical doctor more than a lawyer or business man but I still rather exist a scientist, to be more detail a Theoretical Physicist. I am very interested in Time Travel, wormholes, and the natural wonders of the universe and would want to research those topics.

There is a problem though.

Well there is actually an advantage in beingness a medical doctor. They brand more money than physicists.....or at least I am told that by my parents. I exercise want to get into politics later in life and then I need to brand major money. Every bit a heart surgeon for case I tin brand $540,000 an year or equally a lower dr. I can make at least $200,000 an year.

How much money practise Physicists make yearly? To exist more specific, how much do Theoretical Physicists brand yearly? I heard it was $90,000, but my parents told me that so they could be lying to become me in a medical profession. $90,000 dollars an year is kind of low, so I would want that.

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Y'all shouldn't choose any profession but for the money. Do whatever YOU want to do, don't allow your parents pressure you into making a decision.

When political officals run for role they usually have supporters. If you want to get into politics later in life you should brand a lot of friends who are wealthy.

$ninety,000 a twelvemonth is not 'low'. Information technology matters where you alive. Docters may make more money a year for salary, merely just imagine how much debt they need to pay off from years and years of medical school.

Ryan

i accept a like problem like yours, although indirectly, they brand me do medicine.

Like y'all i adopt theretical physics also, or theroetical chemistry, if there is such a thing.

Although i may be in no position to say it, i hold with logiX. There is no bespeak in making lots of money if you lot're non gonna enjoy what you actually practice.

And considering the amount of mathematical work and enquiry phyicists do, i call up they actually should go moer credit. Although and then, it won't have that aroma of elegancy..

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There was an interesting article in the WSJ a few weeks ago (January 10) that talked near two brothers-in-law. One was a cosmetic dentist. The other was a doctor doing family practise. The cosmetic dentist was living the loftier life - loads of money and relatively easy piece of work schedule. The doctor on the other hand, was pretty miserable. Outset of article:
YARDLEY, Pa. -- Randy Bryson and his brother-in-constabulary Larry Fazioli are both medical professionals in their 40s who practice in Pennsylvania. The similarity ends there.

At Dr. Bryson'southward part hither in suburban Philadelphia, a fountain softly burbles in the blusterous reception area, and patients are offered cappuccino or paraffin-wax hand treatments while they wait. Dr. Bryson works 4 days a calendar week, drives a Mercedes, and lives in a 4,000-foursquare-foot house with a pool. He and his wife, who works role-time in the same exercise, together take home more than $500,000 a yr.

At Dr. Fazioli's decorated practice near Pittsburgh, patients crowd a utilitarian waiting room, and his cramped part is piled loftier with records pending dictation. Dr. Fazioli says he works betwixt 55 and 80 hours a week, and his annual income of less than $180,000 has been stagnant or down the past few years. He drives a Chevrolet.


Anyhow - I would say that if you don't go to a top schoolhouse, then existence a medical doctor or dentist is not a bad way to get. You have a skilful run a risk of making a good living.

However - if you lot get to a elevation-notch school, and then the physics degree is useful in landing a job in quantitative finance, for example. And salaries are pretty high in that location. Merely a normal run-of-the-mill physicist is probably not making more or much more than 100K a yr. I've heard of some physics postdocs at national labs making 80K a twelvemonth. Total profs at top-notch universities are making somewhere over a 100K a year. So your parents are probably right when it comes to theoretical physicists.

But - you might piece of work in applied physics and develop some applied science that you could patent and form a visitor around. And so - you could conceivably strike it rich. Also - I'm not sure what industry jobs pay.

If you are focused on just making money - but go to business organisation school. Or just something in finance. At that place are people 3-4 years out of college who make between 150 to 200K a year. However, chances of getting jobs like this if y'all don't go to a good school are slim unless you lot're well connected.

I heard it was $90,000, but my parents told me that and so they could be lying to get me in a medical profession. $xc,000 dollars an year is kind of low, so I would want that.

That'southward roughly correct, for whatever information technology's worth, but only in the early function of your career. Depending on whether you work in industry or academia, your salary growth could vary.
That'southward roughly right, for whatever it's worth, just only in the early on part of your career. Depending on whether you work in manufacture or academia, your salary growth could vary.

Proceed in mind that in physics - the postdoc menstruum tin can final a long time.
Focus on studying to go a job that you will relish doing. You desire to exist able to wake up every morning and look frontward to going to work, that is the nearly of import thing. I would rather make 45,000 a twelvemonth doing a job I truly dear than brand 250,000 year doing a job I hate. Most people piece of work at to the lowest degree 8 hours a day, that is a really long time to exist doing something you detest.

Success is waking up every morn and being able to do any you want, and if that matter you want to do happens to be your task, and then you have made it.

If you aren't sure, simply go to college and outset with physics as your major. This will permit you know how much you lot truly love information technology. You tin can always change your listen nigh your major and remember that you need a 4 year degree in anything to get into medical school.

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$ninety,000 dollars an year is kind of low, and then I would want that.

The average salary in the US I believe is around $45k, $90k a year is a very dainty amount. Practice what you lot dearest to do, don't worry about the money. I'd rather exist a happy begger than an unhappy ceo.
I'd be happy making 30 to 40k.

Note: In Canada, of form.

My parents are pressuring me to become a medical doctor but I don't really want to. I hateful, I rather become a medical doctor more than a lawyer or business man but I even so rather exist a scientist, to exist more than particular a Theoretical Physicist. I am very interested in Fourth dimension Travel, wormholes, and the natural wonders of the universe and would want to enquiry those topics.

There is a problem though.

Well at that place is really an advantage in being a medical dr.. They make more money than physicists.....or at least I am told that by my parents. I do want to go into politics later in life so I need to make major money. As a eye surgeon for example I can make $540,000 an year or as a lower doctor I tin make at least $200,000 an year.

How much money practice Physicists brand yearly? To be more than specific, how much practise Theoretical Physicists make yearly? I heard it was $ninety,000, only my parents told me that so they could be lying to get me in a medical profession. $90,000 dollars an year is kind of low, so I would want that.


You consider $xc,000 low?

$xc,000 is more than than double the average child.

if you're that obsessed with your paycheck, don't bother with physics. Post docs make $50,000 maximum (in general). Usually less. Tenured professors or industry physicists make $90,000 to $110,000.

I'thousand sorry, but you lot ahve no existent agreement of money if you consider $ninety,000 low. Either that or you come up from a horribly spoiled upbringing. Or both.

I'd exist happy making 30 to 40k.

Annotation: In Canada, of course.


If i'm doing theoretical physics i'd be happy making that hither in the US.
Starting bacon for a physicist with a BS ranges from 28-50k. Theoretical physicists i'chiliad pretty sure brand the least and have the worst task outlook.
Asking how much Physicists make goes to evidence that you do care about money.

The question never crossed my mind.

Request how much Physicists make goes to show that you do intendance nearly money.

The question never crossed my mind.

It crossed my mind, just never as a criterion for choosing it equally a career, more than out of marvel.

Starting salary for a physicist with a BS ranges from 28-50k. Theoretical physicists i'chiliad pretty sure brand the least and have the worst job outlook.

Not really, its but as piece of cake for them to go professorship positions and authorities lab jobs.
Guys, don't go me incorrect. I am simply not after the coin. If simply was and so I wouldn't bother on making this thread. I keep telling my parents that it is amend to do a task you enjoy than the money but they go on saying information technology is better to have money.

At that place a couple of reasons why I myself desire more money. I reason is that I want to become into politics later in life and you have to have lots of money to be sucessful in that line. Secondly I want a better life than my parent. My begetter makes on average $112,000 an year as a pocket-size buisness possessor, then that is why I approximate $xc,000 a chip lower. Information technology probably is not bad pay at all, and then merely because I found out almost theoretical physicists maker around that much it doesn't mean becoming that profession is out of my idea.

What if y'all were to find a major discovery as an theoretical physicist such as a way to travel time ec.t ect. Wouldn't that boose your pay upwards? At that place is then much to discover in this line work so information technology is very likelly I volition detect something big. Won't information technology booste your pay?

https://world wide web.physicsforums.com/journal.php?s=&activeness=view&journalid=13790&perpage=x&page=3 [Broken]

Bank check out the "What is a physicist"-entry in the above link. There are lots of references to various sites on the earnings and jobdescriptions of physicists in various fields and in various countries

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marlon

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Guys, don't go me wrong. I am just not afterward the money. If only was and so I wouldn't carp on making this thread. I keep telling my parents that information technology is better to do a job you relish than the money simply they keep saying it is better to have money.

There a couple of reasons why I myself want more money. 1 reason is that I desire to go into politics later on in life and you have to take lots of coin to be sucessful in that line. Secondly I desire a meliorate life than my parent. My father makes on boilerplate $112,000 an twelvemonth as a small buisness owner, so that is why I judge $xc,000 a bit lower. It probably is not bad pay at all, so just because I found out well-nigh theoretical physicists maker around that much it doesn't hateful becoming that profession is out of my idea.

What if y'all were to find a major discovery equally an theoretical physicist such every bit a fashion to travel time ec.t ect. Wouldn't that boose your pay upward? There is so much to discover in this line work so information technology is very likelly I will find something big. Won't it booste your pay?


Yes. If you're churning out major research Universities will want to pay you more, and y'all'll be more likely to be requested for lectures and seminars which pay very well for the time involved.

Every bit for the making less money that your parents, my parents make nearly the same equally yours, my dad works in franchising. Business fields will always have the potential to make more money, its simple capitalism. Scientific discipline is on the other much less capitalistic in general.

Nonetheless to say its very likely you'll detect something big is a pinnacle of arrogance even i wouldn't go to(and i'g the about arrogant elitist jackarse anyone i know has ever met, though i can usually put my money where my oral fissure is, then to speak). It doesn't work that style. Just considering at that place is a lot to discover does not mean that you will notice it, no matter how genius you are. Its a affair of being in the right place at the correct fourth dimension.

The fashion real physics works is that lots of little $.25 and pieces are studied by individuals for years, and then every once in a great while an einstein or a feyman comes along and pieces it all together into something coherent and denoting.

Farther as for the money you take to understand the occupational lifestylf of a physicist, especially a theoretical physicist. You lot'll spend hours locked in a room with coffee and a blackboard, non much fourth dimension to enjo larg income, yous're besides busy working on watever problem has you lot enthralled at the time. You live your task actually. It has to be something that you're doing ebcause you love it.

edit: If you're concerned near cost of education vs payout at the finish (which is more than legitimate in my mind that being worried about the paycheck in and of itself, physics majors mostly don't pay for grad school. You piece of work as a TA or RA (research banana) during your doctoral work and then don't have to pay.

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If you lot recollect $90k U.South. a depression income, then you lot're better off in law or marketing.
For a recent listing of the top paying jobs in the US please come across:
http://fastweb.monster.com/fastweb/content/focus/story/3770.ptml?ID= [Broken]
Here a physicist is 15th on the listing. That is pretty skillful out of the thousands of jobs available in the Usa.
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On the other hand, if you graduate with a physics degree, chances are your didactics was paid for by grants, fellowships, or assistantships, while those MDs spend a good portion of their income repaying educatee loans while notwithstanding trying to build a exercise.

Seriously, don't go into science for the money. For that matter, don't go into medicine for the coin. Nobody needs a medico who just wants to make a big paycheck and couldn't intendance less about the person in forepart of them. If you are simply interested in money, go into business organization. You're not going to go wealthy equally a scientist, the science has to be the reward rather than the coin. You too accept to look at how many years it takes earlier you lot get-go earning the salary that you think you can alive with. If you lot're expecting a 90K bacon or higher, you take to go along in mind that you're not going to be earning that with a post-dr. or even a junior faculty salary. That's a salary you earn AFTER y'all've obtained tenure. That's quite a few years down the road.

However, we could use more politicians with a solid training in any of the sciences. If your long-term goal is politics, it'southward worth considering a path where you obtain a PhD in the sciences, and then instead of a traditional mail service-doctor, apply for a fellowship equally a science counselor for Congress. This volition get you into the political arena. From there, yous tin can choose to stay in politics or render to science, whichever you find works best for you.

I'd suggest you lot take both scientific discipline and poli sci classes in higher and take your time choosing a major until you're more certain of which you'd really prefer doing. This isn't your parents' decision. You're the ane who has to get upward every morning and go to the job you either love or hate.

you lot tin do talkshows, tonight with professor gravity or something. Or y'all can write books.

If you desire a political career later, you could always piece of work for the military every bit a enquiry scientist, and then build up connections from at that place.

Not really, its just equally easy for them to get professorship positions and government lab jobs.

No, I don't think information technology is "just equally piece of cake". Experimentalists tend to take higher "employability", and virtually universities tend to have more openings for experimentalists and theoriests because of one of import gene - experimentalists tend to bring more than research funding coin than theorists.

Coming back to the original question, 1 must keep in heed that most physicists are employed as academy instructors. Then their pay scale are tied with what the schoolhouse is willing to pay. The big (and rich) schools will pay their top faculty members meridian dollars (easily in the 150K range or more). If 1 is in a United states Nat'l Lab, and so over again one is tied to a pay calibration that'south available. The other common avenue for employment, and this is where experimentalists take a leg upwardly on theorists, is the industrial sector, where physicists are employed as "engineers" in various areas of research&development and fifty-fifty manufacturing, etc. Hither, the sky is the limit in terms of salary.

Zz.

Lots of physicists have washed fundamental work that really was the foundation of many engineering science-related industries. Simply expect at semi-conductors, fries in general and photonics or nanotechnology. Those people make big bucks, you all can trust me on that...

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marlon

ps : the simply true engineer is a PHYSICIST

Another fob : try to get famous (by winning lots of awards in physics) and so give speeches all over the earth. ofcourse you will need to starting time modest, but as yous get better and meliorate in presenting your work you lot can become the international movie-star of science...A Bit like the lectures and speeches of Feynmann. Then, the coin will kickoff to roll in...

marlon

ps : the only true engineer is a PHYSICIST

This is bull. Im willing to fence and then far as to say that an engineer is more than likely to discover something fundumentally new if he practical himself than a physicist who only has a pure physics curriculum track

This is bull. Im willing to debate so far every bit to say that an engineer is more likely to observe something fundumentally new if he applied himself than a physicist who merely has a pure physics curriculum runway

And i am willing to argue so far as to say the exact opposite. And so i don't call back at that place is whatever reason why we should commencement such a discussion, because we won't be able to convince each other.

allow u.s.a. exist diplomatic and state that each of us has a dissimilar opinion on this matter ; whether it is "bull" or not :wink:

regards
marlon

Ok ok :tongue:

Ill just driblet downward a few names and we can shelve this :cool:

Leonardo Da Vinci
Martin Perl (BS ChemE/ Ph.D Physics- co-discovered Tau Lepton)
Alfred Nobel (MechE/ ChemE)
Gustaf Dalén (Engineer/ Nobel Prize 1912)

et al

Ok ok :tongue:

Sick but drop downwardly a few names and nosotros can shelve this :cool:

Leonardo Da Vinci
Martin Perl (BS ChemE/ Ph.D Physics- co-discovered Tau Lepton)
Alfred Nobel (MechE/ ChemE)
Gustaf Dalén (Engineer/ Nobel Prize 1912)

et al


Da Vinci ??? Ok he was an universal genius but i call up you doesn't vest in this list. At least non the style you intended it. Perl is a physicist because he is a phd in physics. Besides chemical science is a cardinal science...we can argue about the "engineering-part" that was necessary for the tau lepton discovery.

Besides, do i demand to fill in the names of all physicists that won a Nobel Prize ???

regards
marlon

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