1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.
What's the job market like for chemists? Dude -- it's always bad.*
How bad is it? How the heck should I know? Quantifying the chemistry job market is what this blog is about. That, and helping chemists find jobs.
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(*For the literal-minded, this is a joke. Mostly.)
Dude! You need to tell us what happens when "you" are "tapped"! (Wikipedia it)
ReplyDelete-Dork from the '90s
Time to break out the fullerene-shaped-die!
ReplyDeleteCJ-Dude, is that really you? What's on your head?
ReplyDeleteBack in grad school, there were some classmates who played World of Warcraft and had characters (gnomes, warlocks, elves, etc.) named after professors in the department.
Anyway, here are some potential Organic Chemist-RPG traits:
RESISTS: ill-effects of fast-food/ramen/alcohol diet, snarky comments by labmates, admonitions to bail out of a decaying field.
AOE: Stinking up the lab with dimethylsulfide
CRIT: 2% chance of landing a job in this economy
BUFFS/UPGRADES: SCF-HPLC (+1 to compound resolution), CryoCool (+2 to kinetic selectivity), CryoProbe NMR (-1 time to degree completion), Rotavap Vac Regulators (-5 to bumpage)
SPEC TREE: Synthetic Organic-->Materials Science-->Patent Law-->Tech Tranfer Operations
Half-face respirator with a fit test hood.
ReplyDeleteCJ, have you seen this appropriate contribution from PHD Comics?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1417
@Anon5:43 Don't forget: For each non-amide nitrogen in your target molecule, +2 to your time to degree completion!