[avmich]

> That's why your average physics PhD graduate is typically employed outside of the field they learned and earns less than an average React programmer.

Ha, I used to think that a big chunk of physicists by education are employed outside of the field they learned and earn top 10% salary of the industry doing software in financial companies.

Heard more than once that computer science is easier than physics. Physical background helps hugely with software.

[porknubbins]

How would physics help with software though? My impression from trying physics is that its just that if you are smart enough to do physics you are smart enough that software engineering is not really hard but at most merely complicated.

[whatshisface]

Physics teaches people how to work with emergent properties of simple systems, something with applications in software wherever the typical industry case analysis + ontology* paradigm is not the right way to work.

(*This used to be case analysis + object oriented ontology, but now there are other language features to map ontologies on to.)