You’ve spent years in school and now you are wondering “What was I thinking??” You have seen one too many experiment fail, smelt too much acetone, wrote the paper from hell…now what?
This blog’s for you!
Welcome to the world beyond the lab bench!
March 12, 2007 by Patricia
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Nontraditional Careers for Chemists
By Lisa Balbes Published by Oxford University Press (2006) Review "The book was really an intensive job of research, because the author has interviewed dozens and dozens of chemists who are in a very wide variety of positions, all 'non-bench' jobs. ... It is a very complete text, and a wonderful read."-- ScienceCareers.org-
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You go out and find a nontraditional career, of course!
It happened to me! Spend some time getting to know yourself, your personality, skills, preferences, strengths, weaknesses. I found “What Color is your Parachute” very useful. See http://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2007/dp/1580087949/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1510498-3401427?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173793321&sr=8-1