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Post PhD options?
Any info at all would be greatly appreciated!!
Cheers!
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I've just put in for a degree in Physics at Uni. Everyone asks me 'Well what do you want to do when you leave?' and to be honest I havn't a clue what to do apart from work at CERN, but I know that its something I've always wanted to do and learn. So even if I don't turn out to be Einstein, then at least I've done something I've always wanted to do which is more than what most people can say! Good luck.
I've got 2 friends at the level you are talking about. One got a PhD in Microbiology and worked for the Wellcome Institute researching into cancer, but he moved to Vancouver 18 months ago and now 'approves' copies of drugs (someone brings out a new drug, another company copies it to jump on the market, he has to check the copy does the same as the original).
My other mate did a PhD in Maths and Computing and has been a professor at Miami Uni for the last 20 odd years (as he can't afford to come back to the UK!). His main joys are confusing all those youg Americans! eg "Just solder that mauve wire". " Whats mauve?"
I couldn't tell you about leaving academia, since I never want to leave! I think I am alone in my cohort of PhD students in that I want to be a professor when I'm done. Ideally, I will find a position at a small university, where I can primarily teach, but also run a lab where I can teach undergraduates how to conduct research. Well, that's my goal at least! Good luck with whatever you choose to do!