landing a job in astronomy.

[dstebbins]

I'm an aspiring astronomer/astrophysicist/etc who is about to graduate from high school and go to college. The problem is that I was just searching usajobs.com and monster.com looking for jobs as physicists, but the only ones I could find were "monitering CIA sattalites" or "drug chemists," none of which interest me in the slightest. It made me think for the first time: What if I can't find a job to match my future PhD? Does anyone know where I might find a job as an astronomer or an astrophysicist or a quantum mechanic? Or rather, would I be more likely to land a job as a professor at my university? If so, would I need to double major with a teaching degree like a high school teacher would?

[[Tycho?]]

"Physicist" is not the sort of job you will find online. You'll probably find work through your graduate school, and it will very likely be working for a university somewhere. There is not a lot of private or government interest in astronomy, doesn't really make much money. There is some of course, most would be academic research though.

[dstebbins]

whew, thanks. That's a relief.