>>12093238Chem major here. Huuuuge mistake. To be fair I hate academia with a searing passion, and I’m not willing to compete with the huge over saturation of candidates. I opened a retail store instead ten years ago when I graduated which was also a bad decision, but that’s another story. If you really want to do meaningful chemistry research I’d open a small lab, pay some h1b visa candidates peanuts to do all the hard work, maybe graduate in something useful for business like accounting. And then just self teach yourself chemistry in whatever field niche you are interested in. If you aren’t completely worthless this shouldn’t be hard. Knowing a lot of chemistry makes you about as replaceable as a no.2 pencil since millions of third-worlders probably know more than you. Unless you are insanely specialized, then you have the risk of the knowledge possibly becoming completely useless in the future.
