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Briefly describe your duties and responsibilities in your current job.

JUN 01, 2015
Physicists in the Private Sector
Private sector job duties

This companion report to Common Careers of Physicists in the Private Sector is one of a set of three that describe the work that PhD physicists do 10 to 15 years after earning their degrees. It is a compilation of the comments that these physicists wrote in response to the open-ended question: “Briefly describe your duties and responsibilities in your current job.” The comments are organized into the eight types of private-sector careers held by PhD physicists in the US. These eight types of careers are the organizing theme for each of the three reports. The comments provide readers with a vivid picture of the breadth and variety of private-sector job duties and responsibilities reported by mid-career physicists

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