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I'm going to uni next year (taking a gap year right now) to study CS or Physics. I don't know which one to pick. I'm interested in both, but I'm afraid CS will land me a code monkey job and physics will force me to work in an unrelated field. I'm not really "passionate" about any of them, but I find both interesting.
I guess my ideal jobb would be working for an interesting company/institution like SpaceX, CERN, NASA, Google, etc doing something that actually matters, like sending rockets to Mars or building cool platforms that people will actually use or AI, and not some bank app or researching measurement techniques or working as a lab tech or anything.
I have no idea what to choose and I'm stuck. Any advice?
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>>17533165
>doing something that actually matters
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>>17533330
>Working with space agencies, the particle collider agencies, and largest computing based multinational in the world that is so powerful, that court rulings involving search engines don't even use 'search engines' in the ruling, they just say 'Google has to do this now'.
I'm curious, what do you think actually matters? There's a number of reasonable alternatives, but I doubt you're going to say any of them for some reason.
Why not go for engineering? It's a decent mix of the two subjects, and you can choose to work with either specialism while mostly having creative freedom.
Otherwise, all I have to say that universities in general will focus on one thing for physics, and that thing differs between universities; mine likes to focus on sterile conditions for delicate machinery construction, and uses of lasers.
If you don't like coding, do neither of these three; some point down the line you will have to use MATlab, or C, or C++, or Java etc.
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>>17533165
>doing something that actually matters
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>>17533165
Regardless of what you choose i will say this. Getting into a CS oriented job with a physics degree will be significantly easier than getting into a physics job with a CS degree. Either way your own studying outside of school will define how employable you are.
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>doing something that actually matters
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>>17533165
>doing something that actually matters
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