Job market Memes

The career trajectory of physics students depicted as a skateboarding park is painfully accurate. Start as an ambitious Indian student, pursue physics with youthful optimism, finish your Masters while still clinging to academic dreams, then watch as gravity and reality hit. That Theory PhD? Just another trick before you inevitably slide into becoming a Software Engineer—where all physicists apparently go to die. The universal conservation law of career paths: enthusiasm transforms into resignation with minimal energy loss. The rake-to-face transformation is just *chef's kiss* perfect symbolism for what the job market does to your theoretical aspirations.

The struggle is real for physics grads! On the left, our poor physicist is just standing there with his briefcase (d = 0, meaning zero displacement). Despite all that force (F) being applied, he's going nowhere fast—just like his job search! On the right, he's FINALLY moving! But physics haunts him forever. Now he's walking perpendicular to the force (θ = 90°, cos θ = 0), meaning all that education force is doing ZERO work on his actual career path! Four years of quantum mechanics and differential equations just to walk sideways from your field! Who needs a job when you can calculate exactly how unemployed you are? 🤓

Spent 8 years unraveling the mysteries of quantum field theory only to end up debugging Python scripts that predict how many people will buy pumpkin-flavored toothpaste. The universe works in mysterious ways—mostly by turning theoretical physicists into Excel wizards who can afford groceries. That PhD certificate looks fantastic next to your "Employee of the Month" award from a company that can't spell "Schrödinger" but knows you're the only one who can fix their data pipeline. The fundamental forces holding our universe together? Less stable than your new career trajectory!