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Ex- (and maybe future?) chemist lost in III-V land. Suspicious of interfaces. Trying to put more gay lasers in space.
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Not that good at cooking, art, or climbing, but will probably post about all three anyway.
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There’s a lot more to your potential than what you get paid to do. Personal growth takes a lot of dimensions our academic background encourages us to neglect.
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
FWIW, the year after I defended I couldn’t get hired in academia for anything beyond an adjunct role, couldn’t get a job in my field, took a lowball offer doing something else because I needed the health insurance. Hardest year or two of my life. Probably took a decade off of it if I’m being honest.
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
wow way to go polar cop on us
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
You JUST GRADUATED into a collapsed labor market, give yourself some grace. Takes some of us a few years to find our footing.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Ah, sorry to hear that. That’s really disheartening.

I think it really depends on where you end up. There are good and bad work environments everywhere, and even the good ones are not perfect. Choose your people wisely, I guess.
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
PhD student, right?

You’ll get there - even if you just end up an industry rando like me and you mostly just publish conference papers. I know it seems near-impossible now, but hang in there.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I got bumped to acknowledgments a couple of times and was not happy. Now I take care to aggressively credit everyone on my programs and I don’t give a fuck how long the author list is.
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Nah, it just means [prominent scientist] isn’t a physicist, because that would be irresistible
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I think the proportion of NTs in physics and engineering is significantly lower than in the general population.
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Yes, just snacks. They know their customer base.
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
omg I would LOVE garage project supplies as gifts…I think I’m slowly turning into my father and I’m ok with that
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
They’re a pretty quiet couple in their late 20s/30s. Fluent in English (as they’re leaving the US), proficient in French, fascinating conversationalists, really some of the coolest folks you’ll ever meet.
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This is an argument, but I can also understand an eyeroll akin to “GMO is bad!” - too broad a statement to be useful. Replacing all the art/animation with AI would be egregious, but using it to generate a snippet of code or NPC dialogue or something is less so
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Or pharmacist suicides
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
That was 10 years ago. Lasers are cool but I still miss chemistry.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
My wife went to that school 😂
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Yes, that route works GREAT on paper!
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I’ve stayed at a few with glass doors and I DO NOT LIKE THEM. If my tiny hotel rooms in Japan could fit a door, you sore as hell can in the US!
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM