I'm a chemist, finishing my M. Sc. from a good university in Europe right now.
I would like to ask fellow chemists or knowledgeable people here what my career options are from here on, and how good they are. A lot of my peers are going for a PhD, which I'm considering as well but I'm wondering if there's also other options that could be viable? I would be open for non-chemistry related things.
>>7744838
>MSc
Quality control.
>PhD
(If you're extremely lucky:) Quality control.
Wish I was joking, there are zero jobs for chemists at the moment. You have to tech jobs for the foreseeable future and pray the field becomes less saturated (not in the next decade).
I recommend getting a tech job because every idiot is trying to ride out the storm by hiding in grad-school, which only oversaturates the degree. You could be earning a full time salary right now, literally any job is better than grad-school, even if it's not in chemistry.
>>7744913
I've heard something like that. Are you US based? In Europe PhD really isn't that bad, it pays maybe 2000 a month which isn't a lot but livable at least
>>7744913
Sad to see the field so saturated, I thought getting into chemistry would lead to a clear cut path into the biotech industry but nay, the grass is very brown on the other side. I really can't curve my interest in the subject, teaching high school Chem honestly sounds somewhat nice, there is apparently a big need for qualified highschool science teachers.
What job in science, technology and engineering (realistically) has the highest pay ceiling?
Doesn't matter because the highest paying job is CEO of a large company, or owner of your own. It doesn't even need to be STEM related.
>>7744834
OP:
"Hey guys, what's the most interesting book you've read?"
You:
"It doesn't matter because the most interesting media is TV. It doesn't even need to be paper media."
Just kill yourself tbqh
>>7744844
he asked for the pay CEILING well there you have it
Is Electrical Engineering a worthwhile degree to get if I want to go into nanotech?
>>7744645
nanotech is meme dude
but EE is really good
>>7744645
EE is god-tier, depending on who you ask one of the best majors you could possibly pick, but nanotech is as meme-tier as you'll get
choose 3 men from all periods of time who will represent humanity at the intergalactic conference.
>>7744635
Adolf Hitler
Donald Trump
Ben Garrison
>>7744635
D.J. Khaled
John Cena
Kanye West
>>7744635
Pope John Paul II
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Am I the only one who sees the dominance of maths in explanations of physics as something of a cancer?
I have no problems at all with using nothing but formulas to make practical use of one's physics knowledge, but forumlas have limited use in learning, because they're only good for demonstrating explained relationships.
You can get a good grade still of course, if you have a purely mathematical understanding of a phenomenon (since assessment style reflects teaching style) but creative applications of such knowledge are out of the question.
And yet no one seems to see a problem with this.
Earlier today I saw a question on Hawking Radiation.
>asker: "Why do small black holes radiate more energy?"
>responder: "because T = 1/r"
I've got a bounty of mathematical explanations before me when I go onto the internet, but being able to calculate and not know what's really going on is useless when I want to research if Hawking Radiation can be used to exploit a loophole in entropy implied by many worlds theory.
And then, of course, there's pages of information that evert several words uses a jargon term that'd take at least a minute to learn the meaning of. Sure, it saves the author and sufficiently learned readers some time, but does it have to be that every source of information on advanced topics is like this? There's a lot of science out there to learn and to generalise any of it one needs to have a flawless understanding of a large scope, but the only ways to learn like that is to either be a level 99 autist or be reading the science equivalent of baby food.
>>7744574
>Am I the only one who sees the dominance of maths in explanations of physics as something of a cancer?
No, there are many other butthurt retards like you on the internet.
>>7744592
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>>7744574
Study philosophy breh. I hear philosophers care about this kind of bullshit.
Ruled paper vs blank vs grid for science and math? Which is best
>>7744421
>science
>not pure math
lel as if I'd take anything that plebby.
>>7744421
Paper is for faggots. I write my equations using the corpses of children.
dot grid or inverted graph paper
How do I get atoms if I have a bunch of electrons. Do I need to add Electrolytes.
>>7744362
aren't atoms the smallest.
>>7744357
No, electrolytes split electrons into even smaller particles.
>>7744364
Ah, you are right! My confusion. Yes, electrolytes will split electrons into their constituent atoms, but you need very powerful electrolytes, or you might end up only splitting them into quarks.
Why couldn't Newton figure out the gravitational pull of more then two bodies?
Who says he couldn't? It would just be tedious work. Or did you expect a closed-form formula for their motions?
>>7744345
Why couldn't OP figure out the correct version of than/then?
Also, the *pull* (force), rather than the motions, is trivial to work out.
what the fuck happened ?
http://shanghaiist.com/2015/07/27/bus-driver-hits-breaks-before-vomiting-blood.php
>According to the doctors, Chen Yi was suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding.
>>7744050
jeez. too much pollution i guess
>>7744050
How can intestinal bleeding just happen so violently that one vomits such a significant amount of uncoagulated blood?
I wouldn't be surprised if that was half or more of his body's total blood content.
>MIT
>"Prestigious University"
ha!
https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/03/03/mit-awards-pirate-certificates-undergraduates/7bevphhaZi94oVMvctNslL/story.html
>no rape contest
>no murder course
>no theft assessment
shit pirate certification/10
To what extent did pirates use bows, anyway?
what progress has barnett made lately? why isn't he working on string theory?
he's making some big strides in puberty
>>7743840
>child prodigy
Bigest meme ever
Actually he is working on String Theory right now.
http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/research/research-areas/quantum-gravity
Merry Christmas /sci/, could any of you gentlemen tell me if the following series converges to any number? And if so what number?
Does not converge
>>7743397
okay, so if I get this right, it doesn't converge because x^x grows faster than then the range can decline?
>>7743400
Lol i thought its a lambda
Start writing your homework proberly if you want hell faggot
Is there a scientific method for increasing one's socioeconomic status as efficiently as possible?
>>7743121
PhD in math
>300k starting
>>7743124
BS in math
>73k starting
MS in math
>82k starting
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Doctorate_(PhD),_Mathematics/Salary
PhD in math
>91k starting
>BSc in coding
>100k starting
Downside is that you will probably live in a city with a 70/30 male/female pop
Biology or Chemistry
Which one is superior?
If you can't answer that yourself it's time to Leave /sci/
>need chemistry for bio
>dont need bio for chemistry
not a hard choice
>>7742049
Biology is just applied Chemistry, which means more Oompa Loompa'ing, which means less pure.
So, choose Mathematics.
Military: 54%
Education: 6%
Science: 3%
So, like does the military really need and use all that money or is it just some big ass money laundering scheme with some side projects for anti-terrorism and oil protection?
What the fuck happened in a world where science and education aren't the biggest things to be spending money on?
How do we change this? Seriously, how do we get Science and education to take up a larger portion of the pie?
Meh.
I wonder what would happen if we took a big portion of the military budget and use it for something else
>>7741898
A good chunk of the military portion, I'm sure, is being used for R&D. You have companies like Lockheed Martin developing Nuclear Fusion with the money they get from selling military tech.
Science is still in demand, it just needs to overlap with politics in order for it to get the funding for big projects.
