Jobs in physics?

[wiggy]

What jobs are available in physics?

 

I know about a few e.g research, design, education even medical physics but can anyone think of any more?

[ecoli]

oh yeah there are

 

http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/advisor/Jobs.html#phys

 

The big one you're missing is industry.

[wiggy]

That wont load on my computer for some reason - but what are they ?

 

Im really interested in it x

[swansont]

Many theoretical physicists have extremely good math modeling skills, desired in the financial sector.

[ecoli]

That wont load on my computer for some reason - but what are they ?

 

Im really interested in it x

 

 

These are from the website...

 

Jobs in physics and other fields

 

• Jobs posted at the American Institute of Physics.
  
• Jobs for Physicists and Engineers — at all levels' date=' from PhysLINK.com.
  [*']Science Job Market — jobs at all levels of teaching in the physical sciences, presented by the American Association of Physics Teachers.
  
• TIPTOP Jobs On-Line—dynamic job list for physicists.
  
• PhysicsWeb — mostly in Europe and mostly for Ph.D.'s.
  
• Job opportunities list at CERN — mostly in Europe and mostly for physicists from CERN member countries.
  
• Job Openings advertised in the Chronicle of Higher Education — mostly faculty positions.
  
• National Research Council Research Associateship Program — postdoctoral positions at federal labs, including NASA and military labs, but excluding DOE labs.
  
• Jobs at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics — in the Netherlands, for graduate students, postdocs, and Ph.D.'s.
  
• Physics and Hi-Tech positions in Israel
  
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Employment Services — job listings and more.
  
• Jobs in Accelerator Physics and Technology — for Ph.D.'s.
  
• Jobs in Acoustics
  
• Jobs in Atomic and Plasma Physics — mostly for Ph.D.'s.
  
• Jobs in Aviation and Aerospace — from NationJob Network
  
• Jobs in Computational Fluid Dynamics
  
• Jobs in Crystallography — posted by the American Crystallographic Association.
  
• Jobs in Engineering — EngineeringJobs.com: A National Index of Engineering Jobs.
  
• Jobs in Engineering and Manufacturing — from NationJob Network, includes programming jobs.
  
• Jobs in Environmental Engineering, Education, Advocacy, etc. — Listings sent for a fee; samples online.
  
• Jobs in Environmental Fields — from ejobs.org
  
• Jobs in GeoScience
  
• Jobs in High-Energy Physics
  
• Jobs in History of Science
  
• Jobs in Limnology and Oceanography
  
• Jobs in Materials Science — includes metallurgy, polymers, ceramics.
  
• Jobs in Metallurgy — mostly for Ph.D.'s.
  
• Jobs in Meteorology— from the American Meteorological Society
  
• Jobs in Oil, Mining, Geoscience, Environmental, Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology, Soil, GIS and Related Subjects
  
• Jobs in Optics — Optical Society of America
  
• Jobs in Optics — optics.org
  
• Jobs in Optics — SPIE
  
• Jobs in Science & Technology Centers and Museums
  
• BrassRing — jobs in technology.
  
• Data Processing Independent Consultant's Exchange (DICE)— offers job listings and the opportunity to have your availability annnounced to 1000 companies. Mostly computer-related, but try searching on "physics" or whatever your field is.
  
• North Bay Technology Roundtable — jobs with high tech companies in Sonoma and neighboring counties.
  
• SonomaCountyHelpWanted.com — jobs in all fields.
  
• Jobs at Tellabs (formerly Advanced Fibre Communications) — a telecommunications company in Petaluma, CA.
  
• Jobs at Advanced Micro Devices
  
• Jobs at Agilent — One of Sonoma County's largest private employers, Agilent has employed several SSU Physics graduates.
  
• Jobs at Alcatel USA — the telecommunications giant includes the former DSC, in Petaluma, CA.
  
• Jobs at Applied Physics Laboratory — Large Baltimore employer.
  
• Jobs at Boeing
  
• Jobs at Compumotor — a leader in the motion control industry, in Rohnert Park, CA.
  
• Jobs at GE Energy
  
• Jobs at Hewlett Packard.
  
• Jobs at ILX Lightwave Corp — fiber optics and laser measurement in MT and CO.
  
• Jobs at Lockheed Martin
  
• Jobs at Medtronic — includes Arterial Vascular Engineering, a large employer in Santa Rosa, CA.
  
• Jobs at Micro-Vu — a manufacturer of precision optical measuring systems in Windsor, CA.
  
• Jobs at JDS Uniphase (includes the former Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.) — the largest employer of SSU physics grads.
  
• Jobs at the Office of Naval Research
  
• Jobs at Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services
  
• Jobs at Science and Technology Corp.
  
• Jobs at Science Applications International Corporation
  
• Jobs at SOLA Optical — large maker of eyeglass lenses in Petaluma, CA and elsewhere.
  
• Jobs at Newport, including Spectra-Physics Lasers & Photonics
  
• Jobs at SpectraSwitch — a telecommunications company in Santa Rosa, CA.
  
• Jobs at Telcordia Technologies — formerly Bellcore, this company provides software to the telecommunications industry.
  
• Jobs at Xerox
  
• Jobs at Brookhaven National Lab
  
• Jobs at Fermilab
  
• Jobs at Thomas Jefferson National Lab — formerly CEBAF.
  
• Jobs at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  
• Jobs at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  
• Jobs at Los Alamos National Lab
  
• Jobs at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
  
• Jobs at Sandia National Labs
  
• Jobs at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  
• Jobs at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

[5614]

Physics at IBM: http://www.research.ibm.com/disciplines/physics.shtml

 

And a more general resource from Institute of Physics (IOP): http://www.iop.org/

[Klaynos]

http://careers.iop.org/ <--- uk's professional body for physicist...

[abskebabs]

I am also quite interested in Physics, and to be honest; I am even considering switching course once I get to University, even though I've already applied for chemical engineering.

 

It's a tough choice to make, and from from my perspective, it seems it would be easier to get a job(probably relatively well paid too) by doing chemical engineering, but physics is a course I would do just for the love of the subject(which is very interesting). Even after having applied to University I'm still not sure what I want to do with my life....