Is an aerospace engineering major limitting

boneh3ad
Tue, 28 May 2013 16:22:26 +0000

Whether or not PhD jobs are hard to find depends on what you are looking for. Tenure-track jobs are and always will be scarce. Industry has plenty if you know where to look (meaning you or your advisor have connections enough to know who hires in your field). Otherwise, some people actually want a post-doc, believe it or not. I know Sandia pays even up to six figures for some post-docs, so it’s not like that’s a bad fate. Most people stuck long-term in post-docs are the ones waiting on that tenure-track job.