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People who studied "hard science": What's your salary?

  • I am really good at physics and math. People are pushing me to study it. But to be honest I don't want to study it. I don't know but I have a feeling that people who studied some hard science major don't earn a lot of money. For example physics is really good and interesting and all but how is this usefull for me personally? Well of course you can be a scientist. But I really don't want to be one... Being a scientist is probably very noble but I don't want to be noble I just want a balanced happy life where I don't have to worry about money.

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    Lots of people who do Science/Engineering don't end up doing that as their career. Technical degrees are excellent ways of showing an employer that you have good analytic and problem solving skills. Looking at my (admittedly small) engineering course of 30 people, about 10 become engineers, 10 go into business-related roles and 10 do 'other' - generally academia. Having said that, the salary after a few years in most of these jobs (assuming you did go 'scientist' rather than 'ceo') is almost definitely enough to 'not worry about money', assuming your level of not worrying is fairly realistic. It wont get you a yacht, but you'll most definitely be able to survive.

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If you go into science only for the money, you're probably not going to be a very good scientist. Do something that you enjoy. To answer your question: I'm a PhD biomedical sciences student, and I get $26k/year + tuition paid to earn my degree. The postdoc in my lab (got her PhD 4 years ago) makes about $40k/year, but would probably make much more if she went into industry or administration. The professor who runs my lab makes about $150k/year.

Mikaela Sifuentes

You seem to be confused about your future studies, but if you are good in it I think you should study it - because only people who love what they study can be really successful in their future jobs and even make a huge career - you just have to be sure what you want to do, then it doesnt matter which profession you will choose - if you will mix work with pleasure = you will both earn good sum of money and 'be happy' ;-) Pelin from http://Mail4group.com

Pelin Sala

I studied Physics as an undergrad at a major university with a top 5 reputation in Physics. I got accepted to the graduate program of my choice (at a different top 5 university), but I decided to defer my admission for a year and work. I got involved in software development and just fell in love with it. I never ended up going to graduate school for Physics, but after several years I went back and got an MBA. I currently earn about $240k/year.

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