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Physics career guide — Roanoke Rapids, NC

Physics career guide by personality and purpose

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What the assessment measures

280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.

Physics career guide. A guide grounded in measurement instead of opinion: forty careers with the traits each runs on, what the work is worth to the world, the education path, and a way to find out which are yours. Physicists create the future by understanding the present: lasers, semiconductors and MRI came from physics with no application when discovered. The work rewards inquiry, abstraction, patience and numbers affinity.

Careers the Roanoke Rapids, NC economy leans on

8 counties across North Carolina and Virginia; 0 metro. Economies: 3 manufacturing and 2 government. Flags: 5 housing stress, 3 low employment and 3 persistent poverty.

Biochemist & Biophysicist+7%Chemist & Materials Scientist+6%Physicist+4%Astronomer+4%

Counties in this labor market

Bertie County, NCBrunswick County, VAEmporia city, VAGreensville County, VAHalifax County, NCHertford County, NCMecklenburg County, VANorthampton County, NC

Metros around Roanoke Rapids, NC

Washington, DC13 countiesCharlotte, NC–SC13 countiesVirginia Beach, VA16 countiesNewport News, VA9 countiesRaleigh, NC10 countiesRichmond, VA17 countiesWinston-Salem, NC10 countiesWilmington, NC4 countiesAsheville, NC6 countiesSpartanburg, SC5 countiesFayetteville, NC10 countiesHickory, NC5 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "physics career guide" different from a personality type test?

A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.

Does it cost anything?

No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.