tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post6006032058484938134..comments2024-03-27T21:23:40.339-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: What industrial chemists need: more awardsChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-34216359545907058082013-03-27T12:33:17.586-04:002013-03-27T12:33:17.586-04:00I don't think I'm making it up that Americ...I don't think I'm making it up that American chemists have ridiculously long lists of awards to their name compared with European chemists. It seems to be an American 'thing' to give out loads of awards (thus making it hard to tell who is actually the baddest badass). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-86536804086411950562013-03-26T13:49:59.310-04:002013-03-26T13:49:59.310-04:00In industry I receive an award every two weeks in ...In industry I receive an award every two weeks in my bank account. Every year that biweekly award may increase by some percentage, dependent on my performance. If that isn't enough, there's also yearly cash profit sharing, stock grants, and benefits, not to mention intracompany awards recognizing outstanding performance.<br /><br />Academia can have the ACS awards. I've got enough to keep me motivated. Kennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-46075401582717734102013-03-25T19:39:16.153-04:002013-03-25T19:39:16.153-04:00Not only that, but it is harder to determine who i...Not only that, but it is harder to determine who is responsible for what portion of a patent. Another issue is that many times we don't patent work in the first place, but rather just document it in internal company reports. I'd guess that only about a third of my body of work as an industrial scientist is documented via patents, and perhaps another sixth via trade or academic publications. The other half has never seen the light of day in public, and never will.<br /><br />Ogemaniachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396797613368443908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-10016194874752749922013-03-25T17:06:48.651-04:002013-03-25T17:06:48.651-04:00It seems to me that academic chemists have much mo...It seems to me that academic chemists have much more tangible measures of success, such as which journal publishes their work (Science vs. JACS vs. JOC vs. Tetrahedron) or the prestige of their particular department. For industrial chemists, you can have 30 inventions/patents, but there is no patent rating system to judge which ones are the most important or interesting. Maybe there should be! Maybe if patents were more user-friendly and were rated based on their impact on society and how much money is generated by the invention, their authors (mostly industrial chemists) would get more publicity. (this, btw, will never happen) ClutchChemistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-77475046249551360902013-03-25T14:11:54.045-04:002013-03-25T14:11:54.045-04:00For academia awards are a metric of performance (a...For academia awards are a metric of performance (and they increase salary) and I always assumed industry doesn't need this sort of thing.uncle samnoreply@blogger.com