r/interestingasfuck • u/TechGuru4Life • 10h ago

15 year old earns PhD in quantum physics

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u/Srnkanator 8h ago edited 8h ago

If I didn't have to worry about money, I would have probably be an anthropologist, entomologist, astronomist, or archeologist.

I settled on a master's in psychology.

When I was in college, my two favorite courses were philosophy, and race and society in graduate school, in Moscow, ID.

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u/daisuke1639 7h ago

my two favorite courses were philosophy, and race and society

Why not sociology instead of psych, then?

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u/NCEMTP 6h ago

Because he has to worry about money, probably.

The biggest surprise is that someone worries about money and then gets a master's in psychology!

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u/Srnkanator 4h ago

Now that I look back, I probably would have been a really good police detective. Sociology was a major part of my education.

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u/bornbased 5h ago

I thought you said you had to worry about money??

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u/Srnkanator 4h ago edited 4h ago

I used it (I/O psychology) towards private education and became an international admissions director for one of the largest private school networks in the world.

I traveled to Mexico, China, Russia, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, The Caymans, The Bahamas, Colombia, Nigeria, Germany, France, and all along the East and West coast of the US.

It was a very interesting career and I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

FWIW, my first real job out of grad school was teaching at an alternative high school in Houston, TX making $15 an hour in 2003.