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Guys, I'm an University physics Student who uses high level programming. I mainly use laptop for internet surfing & for watching video lectures. Help me find a good laptop for a reasonable price.
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Well I didn't find one in bestbuy or in Tigerdirect but I saw a laptop that's on sale in newegg for 700$, it has i7 2630QM and AMD Radeon HD 6570M. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246094 this laptop is really fast for the price. specially the processor (Very good for multi tasking) and graphics card (for watching videos in HD and it will make your videos look better).
Well I didn't find one in bestbuy or in Tigerdirect but I saw a laptop that's on sale in newegg for 700$, it has i7 2630QM and AMD Radeon HD 6570M. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246094 this laptop is really fast for the price. specially the processor (Very good for multi tasking) and graphics card (for watching videos in HD and it will make your videos look better).
Do physics students and physicists get a lot of free times?
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A friend of mine convinced me to study physics. I am still a freshman, and I have registered for a physics class already.
I want to do a lot of travelings in my life, and I'm afraid that physics would take up most of my time. I'm still considering what should I study. Other things that I want to study are: mathematics and (mechanical) engineering. I want to study math because actuary is a high-paid and low-stress profession. I also want to study engineering because itâs a fun and high-paying job.
What I really want to know are: Do physicist have a lot of free time? If so, or not so, do they get paid well?
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This is the brutal truth, be forewarned.
I am a Physicist. I can tell you that Physics does not pay well at all, there are extremely few jobs if you want to do academic research (Think that maybe 1 in 10 PhDs get to be professors, or worse than that in some areas of Physics). Also, the job is VERY time consuming because it is ultra-competitive. This is coupled with the fact that many physicist have very strong personalities and huge egos, so the competition can be vicious. If you want to do industrial work, there are jobs, but then, you can get better pay and get there faster by being an engineer. Also, most jobs in industry for physicist are either as a Quant in a bank (calculate and speculate with stocks, derivatives and futures), in the defense industry on weapons programs, in some IT sector as computer specialist, or a little less frequently doing engineer-like work in technological industries. Financial and defense are the sectors that dominate the physicist non-academia job market.
So, you work your tail-off, most after their PhD get trapped in the so called "post-doc hell" in an eternal cycle of low paying temporary jobs (think 40 to 50 thousand a year in the USA, less outside), having to change every 2-3 years your position and thus causing severe personal problems with your couple or spouse that cannot possibly follow you everywhere, waiting to land that elusive tenure track position. If you do land one (making 60 to 80 thousand a year, not a bad pay, but any "professional degree" can do more ), you have to work your tail off to get tenure, that can take another 7 years. If you survived until there and get tenure, you have beaten the odds from starting phisics mayors more than 50 or 100 to 1. At that point you do get a more secure position, but very few ever get there.
On top of that, the field is ultra-specialized, so there are always only an handful of positions each year for your specific specializations. I am not exaggerating when I say sometimes 5 to 10 openings per year in the whole country. This means that with the odds you have no control, unless you are some superstar, on where you will end up living, most just take whatever job they can in academia. You can easily end up in the middle of nowhere Nebraska because that is where the opening is.
There is ONLY ONE reason anyone should devote their life to this crazy and cruel carrer, that is if they have a HUGE passion for it and are absolutely convinced that there is NOTHING else they would be happy doing with their life. If Physics is your absolute passion, then do it, but know what you are getting into.
On the plus side you do travel a lot because of conferences, but if you want to be successful, you rarely have much time to enjoy the place while you travel: talks, presentations to be made, calculations and computer programs to run from your laptop while traveling. Also, don't think professors get the summer off, or graduate students or post-docs, they use the summer for furthering their research, their academic survival depends on it. Also sabbatical years are mostly used to fully work on research. Successful Physicists are generally workaholics.
This is an example of a VERY successful career:
-4 Years Undergraduate, many drop out
-5 Years PhD (most do it in 7 years) you make 20 K a year in stipends, many^2 drop out
-4 Years of Postdoc (most get stuck here forever or quit) you make 40-50 K, the salary of an elementary school teacher, now many tenure track positions are starting to ask for a minimum of 5 or 6 years of post-doc experience. most drop out
-6 to 7 years Assistant Professor. you make 60-80 K a year, if you don't get tenure it is hard landing another Assistant Professor positions\, you are damaged goods, you have to start from scratch a career in industry most of the time
-Finally you get tenure and have the right to a stable job. All your family is tired of the ordeal, you have beaten unbelievable odds to get here, must be super-smart, make 100+ K per year
I am not talking out of bitterness here, I am close to ending my 5th Post-Doc year and have gotten some interviews to tenure-track positions, am relatively lucky so far, but no guarantees I will land any. Will see.
If your wife also has an academic carreer then just forget it, square the very small odds and add to that the need for both of you to find a job in the same city. Very few have been able to do it.
You want to do Physics? are you ready for the fight of your life?
This is the brutal truth, be forewarned.
I am a Physicist. I can tell you that Physics does not pay well at all, there are extremely few jobs if you want to do academic research (Think that maybe 1 in 10 PhDs get to be professors, or worse than that in some areas of Physics). Also, the job is VERY time consuming because it is ultra-competitive. This is coupled with the fact that many physicist have very strong personalities and huge egos, so the competition can be vicious. If you want to do industrial work, there are jobs, but then, you can get better pay and get there faster by being an engineer. Also, most jobs in industry for physicist are either as a Quant in a bank (calculate and speculate with stocks, derivatives and futures), in the defense industry on weapons programs, in some IT sector as computer specialist, or a little less frequently doing engineer-like work in technological industries. Financial and defense are the sectors that dominate the physicist non-academia job market.
So, you work your tail-off, most after their PhD get trapped in the so called "post-doc hell" in an eternal cycle of low paying temporary jobs (think 40 to 50 thousand a year in the USA, less outside), having to change every 2-3 years your position and thus causing severe personal problems with your couple or spouse that cannot possibly follow you everywhere, waiting to land that elusive tenure track position. If you do land one (making 60 to 80 thousand a year, not a bad pay, but any "professional degree" can do more ), you have to work your tail off to get tenure, that can take another 7 years. If you survived until there and get tenure, you have beaten the odds from starting phisics mayors more than 50 or 100 to 1. At that point you do get a more secure position, but very few ever get there.
On top of that, the field is ultra-specialized, so there are always only an handful of positions each year for your specific specializations. I am not exaggerating when I say sometimes 5 to 10 openings per year in the whole country. This means that with the odds you have no control, unless you are some superstar, on where you will end up living, most just take whatever job they can in academia. You can easily end up in the middle of nowhere Nebraska because that is where the opening is.
There is ONLY ONE reason anyone should devote their life to this crazy and cruel carrer, that is if they have a HUGE passion for it and are absolutely convinced that there is NOTHING else they would be happy doing with their life. If Physics is your absolute passion, then do it, but know what you are getting into.
On the plus side you do travel a lot because of conferences, but if you want to be successful, you rarely have much time to enjoy the place while you travel: talks, presentations to be made, calculations and computer programs to run from your laptop while traveling. Also, don't think professors get the summer off, or graduate students or post-docs, they use the summer for furthering their research, their academic survival depends on it. Also sabbatical years are mostly used to fully work on research. Successful Physicists are generally workaholics.
This is an example of a VERY successful career:
-4 Years Undergraduate, many drop out
-5 Years PhD (most do it in 7 years) you make 20 K a year in stipends, many^2 drop out
-4 Years of Postdoc (most get stuck here forever or quit) you make 40-50 K, the salary of an elementary school teacher, now many tenure track positions are starting to ask for a minimum of 5 or 6 years of post-doc experience. most drop out
-6 to 7 years Assistant Professor. you make 60-80 K a year, if you don't get tenure it is hard landing another Assistant Professor positions\, you are damaged goods, you have to start from scratch a career in industry most of the time
-Finally you get tenure and have the right to a stable job. All your family is tired of the ordeal, you have beaten unbelievable odds to get here, must be super-smart, make 100+ K per year
I am not talking out of bitterness here, I am close to ending my 5th Post-Doc year and have gotten some interviews to tenure-track positions, am relatively lucky so far, but no guarantees I will land any. Will see.
If your wife also has an academic carreer then just forget it, square the very small odds and add to that the need for both of you to find a job in the same city. Very few have been able to do it.
You want to do Physics? are you ready for the fight of your life?
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