First collisions at the LHC with unprecedented Energy! (Ask a particle physisicist)

[I_am_not_mafia]

Fuck I'm so jealous of your job.

I'm currently not working in academia bc. of family related reasons (I would have had to change countries because there are basically no suitable jobs in my specialty around, which is kind of a problem with a small child and wife with a permanent contract), so my job right now is to write and edit science books from my home office and change diapers. Not such a bad job actually, I'm quite productive. Still, I get to closely follow the developments. I might be able to publish a scientific publication again soon. There'll be a booklet about current developments at the LHC coming out in a few weeks time, and two textbooks, one undergrad and one advanced, in German though.

Well it's gone better than my academic career even with a husband that follows me around and no child.

Despite all the hype there are no AI jobs, except in Big Data which I don't count as AI. But there are plenty of jobs in software engineering because that's where the need is. Unfortunately I find software engineering tedious and not challenging in the slightest. But because computing in industry has been so successful there is very little funding for it in academia, well at least in the UK.

The one advantage my field has though is it's still possible to do experiments at home on your own computers. But this takes a very long time. I'm hoping to submit a paper next month that I've been working on for the last 6 years. My academic career might be dead but I still want to achieve something, even if no one reads it.

I did wonder about retraining and going into biology but that would take a long time and I'm just not that interested in it to be honest. And I'd still probably be a code monkey at the end of the day having to sort out crappy amateurish code written by biologists.