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.)
I've worn clip-ons ever since my freshman year. I was making some glass GC columns (spiral, which is not easy) over a Fisher burner. It was ROTC drill day - yup, bent over the burner and the tie caught fire.
ReplyDeleteFortunately the sink wasn't far away. And I had to pay the Army for a new tie. (you should have seen the supply sergeant's face when I explained it to him :-)
After that, I kept some civilian clothes in my lab desk and changed after drill.
I read John Molloy's "Dress for Success" many years ago. For men, the advice was to wear conservative quality clothing that those of the upper middle class would wear. In other words, dress like the guy who's going to eliminate or outsource the position for which you're interviewing.
ReplyDeleteOldnuke, it's impressive that you were able to fabricate a GC column. I assume this was unpaid undergraduate research. Otherwise it's more cost effective to buy the column.
Empty GC columns came standard with instruments in my undergraduate times. Packing a steel column was a basic skill. Packing a well performing glass column without breaking it was what separated chemists from wannabes.
DeleteCJ, glad to hear you liked this idea. I just wanted to do a quick shout out for Georgia Pacific and L'Oréal, as well as our partner Macy's, for their generous contributions of time (Macy's) and money (two $500 Macy's gift certificates from GP and L'Oréal). Not only did we host a fashion show, but two attendees got to buy new "Dressing for Success" wardrobes thanks to these employers' support of the program.
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