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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.)
@CJ: Kudos to your new logo. Anyway, just read a rant on ChemBark's blog about inane chemistry stock photos/clip art. What's your opinion about this jem from ACIE Early View?
ReplyDeletehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201100059/abstract
Maybe, maybe not.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gallup.com/poll/146453/Gallup-Finds-Unemployment-Hitting-February.aspx
There is also a long term impact on the high unemployment rate, almost 20% of children in America are living in poverty.
ReplyDeleteThe economy needs to have jobs growing at this rate for awhile for a recovery to be certain.
Intrinsic Value: Unemployment and Children poverty relationship
A10:45a: You know, for some reason I don't find it very offensive. I find it cutesy, as opposed to the "mad chemist" cartoons that you can find, which I find really irritating.
ReplyDeleteFunny how that works -- I think it's the dot eyes and stuff.