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Ezekiel_980 posted:So I'm gearing up to start sending out my resume, I have a MS and 5 years of experience in pharma hell but it's all in NMR which is utterly useless. How difficult would it be to transition to a position with some sort of growth potential like HPLC or MS with a different organization? Any ideas for how to approach this? Do you have method development or instrument qualification experience? The work that goes into method development does not really change beyond learning the new analysis. Still a lot of statistics and paperwork and yelling. Any ol jackass can run an hplc with established methods so you want to bring next-level skills.
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Don't huff xylenes please. My favorite's the esters we use in the fab.
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Appachai posted:I have to interview someone who has worked in QA QC for theranos for 5 years tomorrow. wtf is this hiring manager thinking You better post a trip report.
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Soopafly posted:You can see all the dead skin cells coming off if you do. Pretty cool. I also clean my wedding ring in ours. Jewelry stores do the same! If yours has stones in it you should take it in regularly and they'll do inspections and make sure they're in there good.
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carnassials posted:How easy is it to jump industries in chemistry? I've been a process chemist in a pharma CRO going on 5 years now. There are job postings that match my current job spot-on except they will have specific things like : Just apply. Highlight your strengths and go in thinking the job posting is probably their cream the pants level of match candidate who doesn't exist. I went from food processing to computer hardware manufacturing and it wasn't rough at all.
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Phosphene posted:I have so many questions and so little context. Why do you have that high concentration of peroxide?
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May 12, 2017 14:52
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We use it for cleaning and etching at various concentrations. It's real good at gobbling up tungsten. Or your skin whatever. Has a real nasty side effect of turning common organic solvents into explosives too. So please please please obey drain segregation.
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May 14, 2017 23:15
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Yeah why would you buy an expensive lab coat for it to get ruined by whatevers? I only wear Costco jeans in the lab so I don't feel bad when a hole shows up.
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May 21, 2017 19:52
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Sundae posted:I had (still have, really) a little issue going on in our lab with a bunch of our scientists being very unhappy with the way the safety rules work around lab gowning. We work with easily-airborne HHC 3B/4 compounds (I think that'd fall somewhere around OSHA Category 1-2 range? Very low limits of exposure one way or another) regularly in the lab, and while we have fantastic isolator setups for every piece of equipment and engineering controls out the wahzoo, we still have to have a decontamination plan if something fails. My objectivity is a bit skewed right now since I just finished the bathroom remodel thread (holy poo poo go read it in the gold mine) but here goes: Who gives a poo poo. If someone wants to wear $200 undies then by god they can wear those undies. poo poo lasts longer and from what the lady Mustached Demon has told me it's tough bra shopping. I even drop extra on undies since they're more comfy and they last longer. Pants are another story due to my work destroying jeans whether they're 15$ or 150$. Good on the management for covering clothes. Employees are more likely to follow through on protocol if they know management has their back.
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Johnny Truant posted:There's a guy in my lab who I've only seen wear shorts. Do y'all not work with nasty poo poo? It's policy in my lab(and like almost all labs) to wear pants.
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Aug 25, 2017 02:24
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I can't imagine not wanting to wear pants working with murderous death chemicals.
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Aug 25, 2017 02:37
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Solkanar512 posted:Wait, what's wrong with 5S in a laboratory setting? It keeps things organized and clean. Also helps ensure stuff isn't expiring all the time. We do 5S too. It's great being able to find things! The lab's also one of the few non-clean room areas with actual work being done so we get tours all the time. I am sure the suits like that we stay clean. Plus the whole safety aspect of not having a cluttered mess of a lab.
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Preferably use your professional network to get your foot in the door. The main thing those "entry level" openings want experience for is just general production lab experience. It's a big jump in work load going from academic lab where work happens at whatever pace to a production lab where they wanted results an hour ago. Hiring managers don't like techs who can't prove they can handle the work load. Sooooo you'll be fine career wise if you spend a year or two in QC hell if that's what doors open for you. Stick to stuff vaguely related to where you want to go, however. Don't go joining a municipal poo poo plant when you want to stay in food. Wrong hole and all. Food safety actually might prove useful since you'll pick up some knowledge about that area of nutritional science.
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Aug 28, 2017 02:58
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Know what I'm doing when I'm done with vacationing.
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That's like 80% of all lab work: instrument not working right.
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That Works posted:I'm laughing maniacally because I had a similar convo with Olympus over some confocal software literally a decade ago that was about the same as this. lovely software seems common in labs. Our ICP-oes politely forgets to calculate out dilution factors when printing reports. So the printed reports don't have dilution corrected values. They said they'd get the error like a year ago. Thankfully we can copy and paste the data into a spreadsheet...
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Phosphene posted:Hi, thread. I recently got hired at a new lab. While looking through cabinets for soap i found a full spray bottle labeled “10% sulfuric acid” in sharpie. No one knew if it was indeed acid or how long it’d been there. How's Russia?
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Dec 28, 2017 20:04
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Beat them over the head with the fattest data dick you can present. Bonus points if their supervisor is there to see it.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:Claimed their sample didn't react with methanol when I have a pile of NMR spectra showing that over time the sample rapidly decomposes in methanol. poo poo yeah!
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Phosphene posted:Time for more tales of Food Chemistry: Ethering the lab sounds metal as gently caress.
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Johnny Truant posted:Yup, sticky notes on every monitor in every lab. We have the decency to write them on the monitor or glass cabinet above it.
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May 20, 2018 23:40
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RadioPassive posted:We run instruments that can only be controlled by Chromeleon but in a GDP environment where data can only be captured by Empower. Do they at least all print out with that cute chromelean watermark?
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May 30, 2018 01:11
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Can that lims goon pm me? I have a question!
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Sundae posted:God drat... and here I was just making a lovely joke. I appreciated it.
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goodness posted:Maybe if you don't clean it. Have you ever had a cast iron meal taste like previous food? I haven't. Good metaphor here. Cleaning a chromatography system's the equivalent of bricking a flat top without heat protection.
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Antivehicular posted:At my last lab job, every communal work space was a tragedy of the commons. The lowlight was the day I came in early to clean, saw ants swarming around the stir plate on the back balance beach, went to go send an all-lab email about "hey, bench is covered in ants," and came back a few minutes later to find that a coworker had measured something out on the ant-covered balance. Because as long as they're on the base, that's cool, right? poo poo dude I thought we were bad with keeping 2-3 generations worth of obsolete equipment in every storage space.
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Dik Hz posted:Some of the older poo poo runs better than modern equipment. You ever see a Varian 300 series HPLC fail? I swear the reason Varian went out of bussness and got bought out was because they could never sell to the same lab twice because their equipment lasted longer than the average prof's tenure. Hmm true. We only got rid of some equipment because the software stopped working with mandatory pc upgrades.
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Dik Hz posted:You should track down the salt culprit and Cs then Ba. You're a good person.
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I like it when the essence of ammonium hydroxide hits the nose when I'm stuffy. That and lower concentrations of acetic acid are my favorite. The higher levels of acetic acid do not smell like delicious pickles. They smell like burning.
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Development posted:
Be easier to just print this ghs label: 
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Pikestaff posted:How often do you guys wash your lab coat? Mine usually lasts about three weeks or so before it starts needing a serious visit to the washing machine, mostly to temporarily flush out the potpourri of Interesting Lab Smells. Usually when it starts to smell strongly of my... musky scent.
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Brilliant co-worker ran an organic solvent through the TOC.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:For the uninformed what's a TOC? Total organic carbon analyzer. Usually used to see ppmish levels of organic carbon in water. Now it's full of carbon and won't return to baseline.
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Worst smell I think we have is tetramethylammoimium hydroxide. Smells like rotting fish and .
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Kinetica posted:I like bringing leftover fish and onions, very garlicky potatoes, and popcorn for my meals. I’m sure this is fine and I won’t suffer a horrible accident. You're gonna find yourself in a vat of HF.
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gently caress sop review season and especially gently caress me for thinking to create a reference guide to condense SOPs for like 30 similar materials into a single document. Each material now has to link to the reference document and each sop is a numbered list and formatting mess due to office versions loving everything up over the years.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:Why is it as soon as I have finished gowning up and enter a potent lab I have to use the bathroom? Same reason I always have to after the cal check passes on the icp before samples run. Speaking of, my labs hiring a chemist. BS+experience required. Advanced degrees also lovely and gets more money. Kickers being 1) you may have to work with me and 2) 12-hour shifts rotating between day/night shift every four months. Other details: Boise, ID. Working with almost every type of analytical chemistry test--icp or ic experience really sets you apart though. Starting out, it's 75% analytical work and 25% analytical development. It's a middle ground between a qa/qc lab and r&d lab. Eventually it evens out to 50/50 after a few years. Starting pays 75-80k/yr or up to around 100k/yr if you're a Dr. Great benefits. Cheap to live in Boise compared to real cities. Last person left because the nights and their special needs child didn't go well together. PM me or something if you're interested.
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Correct answer: I'd have to check the manual. I keep up on my preventative maintenance so I've yet to have ant tires fail on me.
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My company's looking for a chemist that's chromatography wizard if anyone's interested.
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Dik Hz posted:My analytical lab manager gave his two weeks' notice today. Anyone want to run an analytical lab focused on polymer characterization for me? I guarantee the lab has more bench space than any lab you've ever worked in before. Free bench space? More like free to quality more instruments.
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