Anonymous
11/1/2025, 12:05:34 AM
No.16832855
>>16832644
If you make an effort you can definitely get employed. Semiconductors are and continue to be the backbone of massive industries and it's hard to see that becoming irrelevant soon. And because of the politics it's also one field where there at least is investment outside of the US. What's more, it is realistically possible to get a job where your PhD research and experience are actually useful for real.
But it is also quite easy to pigeonhole yourself. It's pretty easy to end up as basically a gimped engineer, doing that work but without the proper grounding or credentials. And it tends to get specialized enough that even if you are employable, there aren't a huge amount of places you can work at. It's not like an accountant or a software engineer who can probably get a relevant enough job in any city around the world. There's always going to be less fabs than AI startup grifts around. And for the amount of years and expertise required, the salaries can be pretty underwhelming, outside the US at least.
If you make an effort you can definitely get employed. Semiconductors are and continue to be the backbone of massive industries and it's hard to see that becoming irrelevant soon. And because of the politics it's also one field where there at least is investment outside of the US. What's more, it is realistically possible to get a job where your PhD research and experience are actually useful for real.
But it is also quite easy to pigeonhole yourself. It's pretty easy to end up as basically a gimped engineer, doing that work but without the proper grounding or credentials. And it tends to get specialized enough that even if you are employable, there aren't a huge amount of places you can work at. It's not like an accountant or a software engineer who can probably get a relevant enough job in any city around the world. There's always going to be less fabs than AI startup grifts around. And for the amount of years and expertise required, the salaries can be pretty underwhelming, outside the US at least.