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.)
As a CAS employee, yes, I have a nose. Soul, perhaps not, but I definitely have a nose.
ReplyDeleteI have no mouth yet I must scream...
ReplyDeletefaceless minions - Yes, I would expect nothing more
ReplyDeleteJohn Steed and Emma Peel would immediately identify the CAS employee as a female Cybernaut.
ReplyDeleteClearly this is an instance of the Helvetica Scenario.
ReplyDeleteSciFinder is a great tool but it causes lot of damage to practicing organic bench chemists. Any Tom, Dick and Harry (read-biologists)can do the search routinely and they start to give you suggestions! That has been my experience with many collaborators. My attempts to tell them that "this reaction is not that simple or ideal in our system/molecule" falls by the way side. Years of experience in practicing organic chemistry is not good for the biologists with whom I interact. They trust SciFinder more!
ReplyDeleteIt's no different from Google in that regard.
DeleteI think real take home point here is "Work without goggles and out of the hood and your face will get that color".
ReplyDeleteIt ain't easy being green.
DeleteCAS is just proving they don't discriminate against zombies or the alternately-living.
Hey, weren't those alien hunter dudes from X-Files mouthless?
ReplyDeleteThe CAS-Files....
DeleteThe truth is out there.
Had that though, but they were eyeless. Neo was mouthless for a second, but CAS guys are no Neo.
DeleteI was right! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facelessrebel.jpg
DeleteSciFinder really takes be quiet in the library to extremes
ReplyDeleteYou're Crazy!
ReplyDeleteBlind, deaf, and dumb am I ~ 'Cause I'm a CAS-SciFinder guy.