What to do after a Physics degree?

[Hedgeman]

toastybase said:

Sales?

No, development roles writing software.

[toastybase]

That's good to hear.

[anonymous-user]

£100-200k writing software!!

Really? Must be pretty specialised or in some high risk startup for that sort of money. Unfortunately software engineering has become a commodity shipped out to India or elsewhere and generally does not pay this sort of money.

[johnfm]

Twin2 said:

At my interview for JLR there were physics and maths students, they're perfectly happy with it so it'd give you a decent intro to the automotive world.

You'll find that very, very little engineering knowledge is needed to be a graduate engineer in a lot of the bigger companies

Which is a pretty sad indictment of how engineering is perceived and the term 'engineer' abused in the UK.

[Katzenjammer]

troc said:

On the flip-side to the Patent Attorney suggestions, there's also the Patent Office as a patent examiner. Ok, the UK patent office is in Newport which sucks, but you could, assuming one has (or obtains) the language skills (need English, French and German) try the European Patent Office. We are sited in The Hague and Munich (a few people also work in Berlin) and we offer pretty decent salaries and benefits.

Also, you get to tell the attorneys what to do

I've heard that the UK Patent Office will soon be recruiting 50 new trainee examiners. It's a job in the UK civil servazzzzz so can't be too bad. Many UK Examiners work from home; you can barely get them on the 'phone before 10:00 as they're either drinking coffee at work or doing the school run.

I would say that the benefits of working at the EPO are far better, even with the recent shenanigans.


As for telling attorneys what to do...I refer you to Article 4(3) EPC . Now get back to work and grant that European patent .

Edited by Katzenjammer on Tuesday 26th January 16:37

[troc]

Katzenjammer said:

As for telling attorney's what to do...I refer you to Article 4(3) EPC . Now get back to work and grant that European patent .

[rotarymazda]

bradfr said:

I graduated from university in July with a degree in Physics. I found the degree pretty challenging however I managed to get a 2.1 which I was extremely happy with.

A friend of mine is a manager at ARM, says they are recruiting lots of new grads.

Many Physics grads go into electronics.