Quote: Originally posted by Panache | after your degree ditch the career path you've set out on and be a fly in fly out miner digging up iron ore in the north west of australia, you'll get
way more money than any professional in a city who's not decent mm upwards and when you're old you can tell your grandkids that you spent your life
digging up red dirt and selling it to china and india, oh and drinking.
there's my rant |
Or you can work for a petroleum company on a rig in some God-forsaken patch of tundra. I hear for a B.S., the salary can be as high as $80 000 + 6
months vacation each year. I was considering it a few years ago until my Russian colleague at my former job warned me, "Don't go. You'll hate the
cold. It will get to you."
EDIT: I can't believe that I didn't think of this sooner. Mark: if you like organic chemistry and you're interested in topics like substance abuse,
Medicinal Chemistry or Natural Product Chemistry might be right up your alley: http://tinyurl.com/2uesy4k (this link is to the ACS career description page for medicinal chemistry).
[Edited on 11-29-10 by DDTea] |