Age

I'm turning 20 fairly soon...Half your age and a whole lot of living left!

Depends what chemistry experiments you do, what chemicals you use and what level of safety you have set for yourself...

Life lenght is dependant upon those.

You are wrong Hodges

Philou you are wrong too!
How old you get depends much more on how careful you look to the left and right side before you cross a road

I heard some where that organic chemists have the shortest lifespans of all, 50 something years I think.

Even with good care and safety in the lab...in practice you can be...

*exposed to minute amounts proteases that will kill lung cells and provoque allergic reactions.
*work at 35°C with bottles of 10 L of CH2Cl2 and toluen that expands and nearly boil under your nose...even if you work in the fumehood.

The last case I have been subject for 2 monthes and I can tell my lever doesn't felt so good in such a little time exposure...hepatotoxic messenger were 200% above normal folowing a blood test I made.



Quite scarry .

Hopefully I don't work there anymore but I thing they should do some bloodtest twice a year to see if there is an evolution and pathology.

Well, for one thing the most dangerous job you can do is being a volcanologist... 1 in 10 dies on average on the job. I dont know how that compares to the military though... I bet the Iraqi army also had some high death rates

Besides this, I would have thought that the decrease of life span in chemists is not as much an issue these days anymore, because of ever more stringent health and safety regulations...
Probably being a painter or something like that is not particularly good either, as they breathe solvents from the paints day in and day out...

As to age... I must be in a rare group! Still I feel waaayy too old

What a sad thing when you look at your pecker and know its dead. 1) Your never having sexual pleasure again. 2) you kinda arent a man. 3) If it's dead....your next and soon to come.
Send that man some flowers.

A dead pecker at 83 isnt bad. Being braindead with the pecker alive at 25 like most are - thats bad.

Yes, what is even worse is if you have a good mind and you let your pecker do the thinking to many times and you get your wife pregnant the first month of marriage! Not that I mind being a dad but it is so sudden. Kind of a miracle really Well, I will be 32 in August and a Dad 6 months later. Scared shitless but kinda excited too!

Age

This is a necropost, but for the sake of spreading knowledge, I am fourteen (and a half ). My father ( an organic chemist) is 60, and we often talk chemistry together. It is nice having a brilliant person in the house to bounce ideas off of (similar to the spirit of this forum).

Wow, chips came with salt on the side?? And there was cork in old pop caps?

[Edit]: Since this poll was started in way back in 04 (almost a decade ago!!!) I wonder if the equilibrium has shifted? As the youngin's would've gotten older and I wonder if the rate of young chemists joining balances out the rate of members aging?

I've moved through 3 categories myself, so there must be others here who have as well.

[Edited on 4/23/2011 by Saerynide]

Quote: Originally posted by food

I read recently that, if you live long enough, at some point you'll switch from being discreet about your age to boasting about it. I'm still feeling discreet. Suffice it to say that I cringed before the original Dr. Who episodes (you know, the _real_ Doctor). A time when pop bottle lids were lined with cork, potato chips came with the salt in a separate wax paper sachet, and my Dad's car had a hand held crank that would fit in to the front of the vehicle to .. turn it over(?).

I don't remember any hand cranks on Dad's car, but I remember the cork on bottle caps, and they were heavy glass deposit bottles. The salt pack was a dark blue if I remember right. The whole world was a haze of cigarette and tobacco smoke. The televisions were black and white with hand turned knobs numbered 2-13, with a fine tuning dial behind them. The volume control was mounted under it, and you had to get up the change the channel or volume. When cable TV came years later, t was advertised as 'commercial free'. Any coin over 5 cents in the US was 90% silver.

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Quote: Originally posted by Mr. Wizard

I don't remember any hand cranks on Dad's car, but I remember the cork on bottle caps, and they were heavy glass deposit bottles. The salt pack was a dark blue if I remember right. The whole world was a haze of cigarette and tobacco smoke. The televisions were black and white with hand turned knobs numbered 2-13, with a fine tuning dial behind them. The volume control was mounted under it, and you had to get up the change the channel or volume. When cable TV came years later, t was advertised as 'commercial free'. Any coin over 5 cents in the US was 90% silver. Brought to you courtesy of "Old Guys With Stories"