A degree or background in physics can really open the doors to a great deal of career paths. Outside of the obvious teaching positions, many careers depend on people with a knowledge in the physics department. These include but are not limited to: Physicist Industrial Physicist Educators Computer Interfacing Lasers Image Processing Engineers Researchers Government and Military Environmentalist Materials Scientist Mathematicians Administrators NASA My son's grandfather is a physicist and he works with non profit organizations for research on incurable diseases.
S work is very important to him. S father died with Cancer, and he works to find treatments and medications that help cancer patients. There are also jobs that do not require a specific degree, but just a degree.
Anyone with a specialty degree such as physics, would be up for these jobs. Many employers just like someone with a degree if it's a job that doesn't require a specialty. However, it would be a shame to get a degree in physics and not use it for a greater good -- of course that is opinionated.
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