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recsol
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Jobs in Science
#26999050 - 10/23/20 03:18 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Where do you think we can find the best jobs in the world in Science. I saw a Jobsite which displays only Oil and Gas Jobs.
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sudly
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#26999234 - 10/23/20 07:30 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Science is pretty broad, from environmental, to medical and chemical.
Depends on what your degree is really, most sciences would require one.
Volunteering during your studies is a good idea, to build a good CV, and to prove work ethics.
I did 100 hours of volunteering on three PhD projects over 6 months, while working and studying. Not easy, but some dedication goes a long way.
Are there any kind of jobs you're interested in?
Oil and gas jobs I think are more engineering type jobs, or high end science fellowship kind of stuff, the work after you've completed a PhD.
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sudly
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Re: Jobs in Science [Re: recsol]
#27174947 - 01/28/21 05:05 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I started in specialist landscaping then moved on to soil testing and water treatment with some fire ant removal between.
Depends if you want to be outdoors or indoors for a starter.
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Re: Jobs in Science [Re: recsol]
#27183222 - 02/02/21 04:47 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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In the broadest possible sense, the majority of scientific jobs are either in the academic setting, or "industry." It varies according to the field of science though.
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Re: Jobs in Science [Re: badchad]
#27187116 - 02/04/21 09:39 PM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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Get a job doing protein purification or something if you really want to dip your toe in. If you can mix cocktails then you can probably run a column as well as anybody with a graduate degree and pharmaceutical companies are always looking for grunts to work the production line.
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Re: Jobs in Science [Re: recsol]
#27198904 - 02/11/21 09:19 AM (3 years, 3 months ago) |
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I've worked in plant research and breeding for 25 years. I've been fortunate to work in labs, greenhouse operations, and field trials evaluating experimental plant varieties. I've grown ornamentals (orchids, carnations, geraniums) and grains (rice, wheat, corn) and vegetables (onion, carrot, potato) and most recently I worked for 5 years for an alfalfa breeder.
Wanted to mention it because it's a career many people don't know much about.
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There's also astrobiology, Arborist. Soil scientist (these guys who work for top golf courses make more than most medical doctors). Your question is too broad. What I would do is write my skills from most proficient to least proficient. Then rank them accord which you most prefer to do. Then look for jobs that require those skills (the one's you most prefer). As a side write skills you would like to acquire, again rank them most desired to least. Try to find a job that matches list one while offering entry and training on list 2.
With how broad your question is this is the best answer I can give you. It's fine to go for a "money job" but a job that you wake up every weekday and look forward to going too is soo much more fulfilling, plus your enthusiasm will be noticed, it may take 5 years or a decade, but the money will follow.
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Re: Jobs in Science [Re: recsol]
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#27276931 - 03/31/21 08:59 AM (3 years, 1 month ago) |
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Find some science you enjoy doing and find a way to make it relevant/helpful to others. Everything else is noise.
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Re: Jobs in Science [Re: recsol] 2
#27317803 - 05/21/21 05:02 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Oil and Gas you can find jobs because it is as not sexy as it comes.
IMO science is basically broken in the West. We have evolved this bizarre social media game based off publication and indexing of those publications and that is how we decide importance. Fundamental discovery is just not that important right now.
The smartest people I have known in my life didn't want to play this game so just got jobs for good money in software instead of being a broke assistant professor.
I just think if Feynman was my age he would be working at Google on something not that important.
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Science is beautiful, but doing it for a living is often not what people imagine when signing up for college.
For example, as a chemist, at the moment one would statistically most likely end up in analytics, which is often a labor camp type of arrangement. Faster, stronger, better for as little pay as possible, because someone else can always do it cheaper in a country with a lower standard. A few people end up in academia, a few in jobs related to documentation (pharmacovigilance, clinical studies), a few end up teaching in schools and then there are very few lucky ones that find really interesting, fulfilling and well-paid jobs in research and development and similar.
And there's also an increasing trend of people moving away from natural sciences and heading towards IT / data science. Pay is definitely better, more free time, a lot can be done remotely + one can always do science as a hobby.
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Yeah. I got my physics textbook off Booktopia, but I'll probably do Computer Science and work from home being a freelance programmer. I'll still go through that textbook though.
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