How to Get Medical Jobs : How to Become a Chemist

[NViES]

I got a few questions:

1) Do I have to complete BOTH masters and doctor's to start to get PhD?

2) After doctor's, do I have to take additional years of studying to get PhD, or do I get PhD after doctor's?

3) So, if I was to become a chemist with PhD, how many years of education is that?

[G0OS3]

LOL...what a pointless video. Chemistry doesnt pay. I know plenty of PhD's in chemistry that cant find a job or work for less. 10 years of education to get a PhD just so u can make 60k/year (and thats if you can find a job).

[AccountTredecim]

@G0OS3 Chemistry pays. One gains priceless knowledge about matter and state changes; what really goes on in the world and universe. If the people you know can't find a position in a research group and can't think of anything worthwhile to research themselves, then they should go on craigslist to do numerous jobs. I've only had laboratory experience and three years of chemistry and I found a $16 per hour job.

[G0OS3]

@AccountTredecim I have a M.Sc. in Chemistry and 2 years experience. My salary is 18/h. you may consider urself lucky then. You didnt invest 6 years and tons of money to get an advance degree so you might not understand. goodluck, and hope you can maintain that level of optimism.

[AccountTredecim]

@G0OS3 I am lucky because of Federal Student Aid. The government realized my family couldn't help me pay for an education. Congratulations on your master's! And you're lucky, too; you have a good-paying job. Looks like chemistry does pay, huh? ;)

[G0OS3]

@AccountTredecim I think you are missing the point. You dont need a M.Sc. to make 18/h with zero benefit. You can easily skip University and still make good money. Avoid Chemistry!

[StrawPipe]

You can find jobs with a Chemistry degree. If you only have a Bachelor degree then you will most likely be the high up chemists bitch, but even so you can find a job. Chemists that have Masters degrees can teach as well, not just PhD. But PhD would be the best route so you can do research and become a medicinal chemist. (Which by the way make good money) Hell with a Bachelor degree you can join the chemical marine core and help production in missiles and bombs.. chemistry is king

[Lpm100]

There is no reason that chemical jobs can't be OUTSOURCED

[Lpm100]

Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

Only an undergraduate who had not finished his degree could say some shit like that.

You've been listening to the lies of the academic faculty (because if they don't have students to fill their classes, they don't have jobs).

But when you go out into the REAL WORLD to find a job, you will find that the starting salaries are more like $30K per annum ($15/ hour) and you must pay much of your own benefits.

[Lpm100]

Give me a fucking break! Was this really information?

The sad part about it is that there ARE no jobs in Chemistry.

[bumminbabe06]

can't you work as a pharmacist though?

[labarrera13]

Who do you think MAKES your medicines?

Who do you think makes the cosmetics your mother wears every day before she takes off to work?

There are millions of jobs for chemists. Not only that, even a beginner level chemist earns an average of 50K a year.

I should know, I'm about to get my bachelors. So don't diss chemistry man, without it most modern medicine (and most other applications to modern life) wouldn't be here.

[TheStoicAgnostic]

Let's be honest now

To become a chemist... working chemist

you will need approximately 100 years of experience and 50 PhD degrees

hence, to become even an entry level chemist you will need to be a highly experienced chemist

it is a profound paradox indeed

or

to be a chemist you must become an actuary and then build your own personal lab

if you're thinking of or are pursuing a chemistry degree

stop

[blahmaen]

Wait, wat?

[TheStoicAgnostic]

maybe a bit of exaggerated cynical talk on my behalf

haha

but none the less I defend my position that it is virtually impossible to find a career in the field of chemistry

Hopefully it's the greater depression going on right now

but it doesn't seem like that is it

[AtlantaAngel84]

where do you live? are you willing to relocate? i have many classmates that have found work in the field

[TheStoicAgnostic]

@AtlantaAngel84

really?

in Atlanta?

[AtlantaAngel84]

I do see some for people with bachelor's and higher. I am still in school and I'm looking to work in a lab. I know when I go onto the aafs they have a lot of chem jobs in tx and va.