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Then when you get to grad school you find out that quantum mechanics is the baby version of quantum field theory
to me, grad school, always sounded like going millions of dollars into debt for a small chance at a $200,000 year job where you die of stress after 5 years of working. Now, I'm not very good at math, but
that’s true for lucrative fields. Physics isn’t particularly lucrative. Physics grad students are typically paid a small stipend to attend as research assistants.
The real issue is that these positions are extremely underpaid, and postdocs have it even worse