I’ve renamed the blog. As a reminder, the previous name was ‘Money, Power, and Culture’.
Although that was an accurate description of the stuff I write about, it was also extremely boring. From now on, I’ll be Jansplaining banking and my observations of human behavior.
After I got my PhD in physics, I started working for a bank. People often ask why I left physics. I usually reassure them by saying that this career choice isn’t exceptional. In fact, most physicists don’t work “in physics”.
A report by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) tracked down physicists working in the private sector, who earned their PhDs in the U.S. about ten years earlier. The respondents were employed in a variety of industries, working as consultants, managers, (software) engineers, etc.
But what about the rest of the world? Are the AIP findings representative for all physicists? Continue reading “What do physicists do? Research, software, and finance”