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Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 08:34:15 2021 No.13032944 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13033328 >>13039426 >>13040242

ChemE Thread
>Do you have a job?
>Why didn't you do EE?
>Are you happy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 11:22:55 No.13033328 Report

Quoted By: >>13033844 >>13034260

>>13032944
>Do you have a job?
not yet but I ended my master's 1 month ago
>Why didn't you do EE?
too much theoretical math, too much competition from China etc, good chemical industry in my country, we also learned some automation and electronics
>Are you happy?
I'm happy to have finished the hell that was my master's

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 11:51:42 No.13033404 Report

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>Do you have a job?
Yeah.
>Why didn't you do EE?
Not interested in the subject.
>Are you happy?
No, but that has nothing to do with my career.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 14:06:19 No.13033844 Report

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>>13033328
What did your masters focus on? What kind of electronics and automation did you learn? PLCs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 16:02:59 No.13034260 Report

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>>13033328
What kinds of positions have you been applying for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 16:13:26 No.13034299 Report

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>plumbers

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 18:17:33 No.13034830 Report

Quoted By: >>13034985

I'm studying pharmaceutical chemist am I fucked???

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 18:50:52 No.13034985 Report

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>>13034830
Are you studying pharmaceutical chemists or pharmaceutical chemistry?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 18:58:09 No.13035018 Report

Quoted By: >>13036745 >>13037024 >>13039430

Trying to decide between ChemE and pure chemistry.
About to finish sophomore year with (Allah willing) a 4.0.
Can't decide between a life of relentless boredom with money, or a life of moderate boredom and less money. I figure I can maybe go into research or /med/ if I get a BSc in chem, but ChemE starting salaries seem pretty lucrative. Plus I like the engineering crowd and I kind of hate the medical/academic crowd.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 19:06:02 No.13035044 Report

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>>13034985
cmon it was a typo

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Anonymous Mon 26 Apr 2021 19:15:58 No.13035093 Report

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>>13035044

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 00:21:08 No.13036745 Report

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>>13035018
You know there exists a chemical industry outside of medicine, right?

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Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 01:35:35 No.13037024 Report

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>>13035018
Take the ChemE industry route, do research with your spare time and money.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 11:42:01 No.13039391 Report

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>>13037024
based and redpilled

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 11:53:46 No.13039426 Report

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>>13032944
>Do you have a job?
Not really. I have a well paid contract at a national lab, but nothing permanent yet. I'm trying to break into pharma processing, but my connections are too sparse sadly.
>Why didn't you do EE?
I like the physical chemistry side of process engineering. We do enough control and instrument engineering to satisfy my curiosity with EE.
>Are you happy?
Yes, but my career is a small part of that. Mostly my wife, friends and hobbies make me happy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 11:54:48 No.13039430 Report

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>>13035018
>but ChemE starting salaries seem pretty lucrative.
This was true 10 years ago because of petro pushing up the average, it doesn't pay as well anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 15:50:49 No.13040202 Report

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>>13035044
ngmi

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 15:53:04 No.13040209 Report

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>>13037024
dude, I did an independent project based off of the work of my professor. He seemed really cagey about it.
I tried reproducing his procedure and got fuckall.
Kept blaming me for introducing oxygen/water into the system but I didn't.
academia is a joke. it's not real life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 15:58:44 No.13040242 Report

Quoted By: >>13040277 >>13040292

>>13032944
Honest question here.
I'm a chemist and we often joke that ChemEs know nothing about chemistry. How true is this? I have only met ChemE students and they of course know jack all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 16:09:06 No.13040277 Report

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>>13040242
In my experience, I think ChemEs have a decent breadth of knowledge on chemistry, but not the depth. Enough to know where to begin asking questions, but not enough to efficiently get to the bottom of things.
I work pretty closely with chemists and I run most chemistry things by them to verify and get me in depth answers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 16:12:55 No.13040292 Report

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>>13040242
We know about chemistry about as much as plumbers do

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 16:16:13 No.13040310 Report

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>>13040292
That's what we joke. "ChemEs are glorified plumbers"

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 16:19:56 No.13040328 Report

Quoted By: >>13040352

>>13040310
Worse than plumbers because you don't get any field experience in your undergrad (at least for my uni) and most stuff at that stage is too theoretical to be applied to any industry job. At least plumber knows what they're doing.

Thank fuck I got a non engineering job

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Apr 2021 16:26:02 No.13040352 Report

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>>13040328
I am at a top 100 chemE school in the US and they all scramble for co-ops and internships constantly. Its insanely competitive I hear.

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