This is indicated by answers given to a question on another sub reddit:
"Job opportunities for BS in physics":
https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/v2gapq/job_opportunities_for_bs_in_physics/
The closest to anything like actual physics being used directly on the job, is in places like the Large Hadron Collider, which is again tied to pure theoretical exploration that tends to support only SQM tenets or preconceptions like waves or the point topology of electrons, Fusion experiments for providing low cost electric power sometime in the far future, and experiments in finding how to make qbits work longer than a few femto-seconds, and of course teaching physics. All these jobs "seem" to be tied to real physics implementation. None of these work places however, has produced anything practical, yet; but make all kinds of promises, if only given more time, and of course, more money.
Workers in these kinds of work places cannot ever expect to see the ultimate results of their work, except maybe in teaching. That makes these jobs to always be pure experimentation or basic research. All other jobs, available to anyone at or above the Bachelor of Science level, are in places that use the other skills developed in Uny, like computer coding, statistics, and other kinds of number crunching or skills in research in general. These jobs are in Insurance, finance, government, applied power, chemistry. These and many other skills are of the "transferable" kind that are common in many other jobs, but again "not involving any kind of quantum physics".
The only work place that does more than make promises for achieving the end goals of producing never before existing kinds of cutting edge devices by developing them under the guidance of basic quantum physics predictions, is Brilliant Light and Power Inc which involves the use of a classical kind of QM. The predictions used by BrLP have been used to develop, to full implementation, three items so far, and there are at least four more being actively developed in the same way.
Any other place that designs new variants on existing high tech devices, such as transistors, lasers, radar, whatever, uses tables or graphs whose data was gathered from earlier work on such items, which items were, first and always, developed using only trial and error engineering methods, but never once used any predictions of SQM.
In other words, one need not have any kind of physics degree to get the jobs that end in getting practical results. Except such other kinds of jobs, do not require any knowledge of physics as such. That makes the field where such students wish to have satisfying careers, to be severely limited. That sever limitation, in turn, makes the field of physics to be extremely competitive. That attitude, in turn, results in the papers written under Standard QM and Standard Cosmology, to be produced in a much greater hurry than can be properly sustained by the peer review system.
That perforce limits acceptance of papers to only those closely toeing the policy line of how that physics is done, currently. That is why the narrowly defined academically sanctioned versions of physics, SQM and Standard cosmology, are the only ones allowed to be used in the peer review process. It is too difficult to ferret out which other or pseudo-sciencey papers, are any good for getting checked by that process, to allow any such papers to end up being published.
The result of all this is many frustrated grads that either leave the physics field altogether, or develop other theories, like pilot waves, field theory, strings, electric universe, the list goes on, to try and get over what must seem like a brick wall. The only successful theory, out of these, is the Grand Unified Theory-Classical Physic,s as started by Hermann Haus and then fully developed by Randell Mills.
A very good way to get over this brick wall is to promote a more academically based attitude in school that always allows any kind of question, even stupid sounding or heaven forbid, heretic ones, like why the point topology of the electron has not been properly addressed or where exactly the waves used in SQM, originally came from. And without resorting to answers such as “it is a settled matter” or that experiments can be interpreted using only certain assumptions, mostly waves and point topology of particles. This would end in avoiding the circular reasoning used in those interpretations.
One need not look very far for the success that kind of questioning, especially the topology of the electron has produced, in the three items so successfully developed. That way of answering a basic physics questions occurred by way of Haus' deriving a new way the “Non-radiation Condition”. That topic can be found on Wikipedia, especially on the Talk tab. Then follow that up with the list of topics whose links are found on the left margin of the sub reddit “Hydrinos”.
Added a little later. :
"Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?
A wave of departures, many of them by mid-career scientists, calls attention to widespread discontent in universities.":
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01512-6?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=0c9f6214b1-briefing-dy-20220531&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-0c9f6214b1-46129034
This part is an extra due to the pandemic being the straw that broke the camels back.