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Career Paths in Education
Technical Didactics, Youth and Adult Education, School and Vocational Education, Environmental Education, Political Education
Possible Tasks
- As a physicist-turned-schoolteacher, you teach students physics and are therefore responsible for making your extremely complex subject understandable.
- With the appropriate master’s degree and qualification, you can also teach physics at a vocational/trade school and thus work in a more practical setting.
- You can teach continuing education courses and training programs for adults, e.g. at adult education centers.
- In political advising, you share your knowledge with politicians.Industries and Occupations
- (Vocational/Trade) Schools
- Adult continuing education
- Educational institutions, organizations, associations
- (International) Organizations
- Political PartiesJob Boards and Professional Associations
This is explicitly not about the technical side of communications, where physics naturally makes an incredibly important contribution. Rather, it is about a subject and its culture, which actively encourages and instructs its students to communicate. If you want to be good at physics, you have to learn to be good at communicating: formulating your thoughts, documenting your approach, presenting your results, and, through mutual exchange, finding out if your insights really are new.
Despite the old clichés, the modern job market certainly believes that physics graduates are good communicators. Those who want to be successful in the field of professional communications can acquire the necessary “tools of the trade” through internships or trainee programs. And those keen on keeping up with the latest techniques and most innovative channels in the field of communications will find their efforts rewarded on the labor market.
