/sci/ - Science & Math

i believe it to be humor.

there is $$ to be made as a qc chemist. working for any big corps blows though as QC is seen as the asshats holding up manufacturing and therefore preventing money from being made. want in? move to raleigh durham and sign up with a temp agency. they will find you something making a fraction of what you can make but this gets your foot in the door. dont be a total fuckup at the job (medium fuckup is fine). dont be a busy body. dont question why you gotta do things a certain way. just do what you are told. QC lab is like reading a cookbook. nobody gives a fuck about the actually chemistry, thats for r & d. hardest part for a new fish is nobody but small places will give someone without experience a chance. after being temp a while, if you are a total fuckup you will probably get hired permanet. learn to hplc/gc/wet chem and go somewhere else. the only way to increase you wages by any large % is to go somewhere else. all the qc chemists i know wish they were something else.

as for stories, ive seen people get nitric on their face. a person spill dichloromethane all over themselves. lots of cuts. ammonium spills. lots of spills of nasty things actually. imploding reservoirs. and a guy blow up a volumetric with methanol/nitric/sulfuric mix right in his face.