Wednesday, September 20, 2017
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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.)
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ReplyDeleteSomewhat relevant IT meme: https://i.imgur.com/3vAbWPK.jpg
ReplyDelete"I've got a really selective ligand for that receptor you're studying--and it's got good oral bioavailability, too."
ReplyDeleteI got a job invitation just like this one, in my reddit private mail, two weeks ago:
ReplyDeleteHiring
from sunclouds89 sent 3 hours ago
Custom synthesis grey area dissociatives... Something not too far from this, http://chemistry.mdma.ch/hiveboard/rhodium/pcp/ketamine.html
Very good pay, if interested please reply a private email
Needless to say, making analogs of ketamine/PCP isn't the job that I had in mind
The same dude yesterday posted a job offer for "a mobile drug testing lab", (it has been taken down since then), so I warned the prospective applicants about the sketchiness of this guy, because he apparently got few serious sounding queries
Hey CJ, perhaps you can talk about this reddit thread in a future post: https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/717qkj/chemists_what_degree_do_you_have_how_much_do_you/
ReplyDeleteIn this area, anecdata is more valuable than actual data!