1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.
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| My all-time favorite post-Apocalypic novel. |
"Roche invited me down to Nutley a few years ago to talk to the research survivors about to make the transfer into Manhattan. Walking through the deserted campus, I thought it would make a great set for a post-Apocalypse movie. The empty buildings, abandoned parking lots and lonely sidewalks make for a dramatic setting.
It's too bad they're still shooting the same movie in biopharma. They're just using different locations."Best wishes to all of us.
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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Plenty of people in Big Pharma who could play Randal Flagg.....but here is my pick, from what I gather:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2013/03/report_pfizer_inc_ceo_ian_read.html
So...which city gets to be Las Vegas and which one gets to be Denver?
ReplyDeleteThe other problem is that there are an awful lot of Lloyd Henreids to facilitate the transition to...whatever the hell this is.
Heh, great question.
DeleteFunnily enough the former Pfizer campus at Sandwich was used as a filming location for World War Z. (And The Tunnel; a particularly conspicuous piece of corporate art gave that away.) There's something deeply surreal about watching a work of fiction taking place where you used to work.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.npr.org/2014/07/30/336337115/as-pharma-jobs-leave-n-j-office-space-ghost-towns-remain
ReplyDeleteMy wife's favorite is Swan Song, by Robert McCammon - it seems sort of similar to The Stand in lots of ways,but I haven't actually read it (apparently it and The Stand are mutually exclusive).
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