[dtech]

not an insider, but apparently it's almost impossible to get funding in (theoretical?) physics outside outside of quantum mechanics.

[scythe]

I assume that what you're trying to say is that it's almost impossible to get funding in fundamental physics outside of string theory, which at least might be true. There are lots of people with funding in theoretical (or at least computational) physics who aren't doing quantum mechanics, like nearly all of astrophysics, much of acoustics and fluid dynamics, nonlinear dynamics, etc.

[varjag]

String theory has been out of fashion for at least a decade.

[Thrymr]

What part of modern theoretical physics is "outside" quantum mechanics? General relativity, sure, but arguably the most interesting problem there is how to make it compatible with quantum mechanics.