reaching fork in road of life

[NbyNW]

The point of all that is that having a larger purpose gives you inspiration. If the greener pastures are really greener and will help you accomplish your goals, whatever they may be, the decisions are easier to make.

Too true. Not sure if there's anything greener than Seattle, but whither the wind blows . . .

I'm glad you'll at least get a little time to settle into the new house before shipping out.

[shootingstar]

The point of all that is that having a larger purpose gives you inspiration. If the greener pastures are really greener and will help you accomplish your goals, whatever they may be, the decisions are easier to make.

Stay safe boy in kilt.

Not sure if what I might have to decide later means a whole lot greener pastures. Or if I will be facing 1 choice vs. 2 choices. One thing for certain I can't continue to burn myself out in a contract job. At least I've had incredible exposure to high-octane-paced project management environment and unusual things that happen in large construction projects.

[boy in a kilt]

I was a project engineer (read: assistant project manager) for a large project for about six months. It was nuts. I can see why people would want to get out of that field.

[TJ_Relic]

In the last year I have:

Left the Air Force, started college full-time as a physics major, bought a parrot that will rule my life for 25 years, left my husband, returned to my husband, changed minors three times, left my husband again, sold my car and started biking exclusively in the last week.

Other than that...no changes whatsoever...

[boy in a kilt]

I have a BS in physics. Fascinating stuff and it provides you with the background skills for almost anything.

However, unless you are planning on grad school the employment opportunities for physicists as such are few.

If you can hack it, try a double major or a major/minor combo that involves physics and something like engineering (particularly electrical or civil), chemistry or biology. Pretty good market for CE's right now. Also, there is some demand for health physics.

There is some demand for physicists that write code. I've made a little money off that.

I realized a few years ago that I'm probably a better engineer than scientist so I may be a bit biased.

[TahoeDirtGirl]

I realized a few years ago that I'm probably a better engineer than scientist so I may be a bit biased.

I entered college as a physics major but found myself thinking that I didn't want to wind up like my professors, most of which were a little...kooky. I realized finally that if I wanted to apply physics that engineering (mechanical) was the thing for me. And it worked. But it's no guarantee of a job, that's a whole other ball game...funny how it never gets as 'easy' as you think it will. But nothing that is worth it is ever easy

[TJ_Relic]

I have a BS in physics. Fascinating stuff and it provides you with the background skills for almost anything.

However, unless you are planning on grad school the employment opportunities for physicists as such are few.

If you can hack it, try a double major or a major/minor combo that involves physics and something like engineering (particularly electrical or civil), chemistry or biology. Pretty good market for CE's right now. Also, there is some demand for health physics.

There is some demand for physicists that write code. I've made a little money off that.

I realized a few years ago that I'm probably a better engineer than scientist so I may be a bit biased.

I'm minoring in math by default, so I recently added English with Technical Writing Specialization. Hopefully that will give me some sort of edge. I tried to minor in Chemistry, but those professors are intolerable really, and we have no engineering program. So yeah, it'll probably be grad school for me, somewhere, but that is a major life decision that I can put off for at least a year still.