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Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




I graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry a few months ago and have been banging my head against the wall ever since. My issue is that my degree/experience is in subfield A and the vast majority of the jobs I can find are in subfields B, C, and D. I have gotten plenty of rejections along the lines of "impressed by enthusiasm/skills/etc, but decided to go with someone a bit more specialized."

As far as I know, the only other places that do the same type of chemistry that my experience is in is academia (pass) and one subsection of NOAA (guess who all of my advisor's main collaborators are). I'm open to doing just about anything chemistry-related, but convincing a company to hire me instead of the specialized folks isn't going so great.

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Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land




Theoretically yes, but

A) I'd prefer to not have to take a temp position and do this whole process (and move) again next year

B) I think postdocs are a tremendous racket and rather not sign up for it

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