Chemist
"Bringing back the days in the lab" Anthony V Hour 2
Basic information about your career
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- You work in a lab and office for your work day.
- You can expect to get paid from $39,330 to $120,600 per year.
- You work 40 hours per week.
- You use simple and complex scientifical instruments and procedures put in place by your workplace superiors.
- You will be studying substances that are ranging in complexity, from very simple substances to extremely complex materials.
- You will wear protective gear most of the time in the lab.
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- And most importantly you study the chemical makeup of substances to improve everyday things we take for granted.
Pros and cons of this career
What do you need to do to succeed in this career?
A masters degree in chemical science for their branch of interest, but chemists with doctorates in their chemical field are preferred
Helpful high school courses would be:
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Calculus
- Statistics and probability
What colleges can you attend to earn a degree for this career?
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Full name
Address
Phone number
Web address
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Milwaukee, Wisonsin 53201-0143
- 414.229.1122
- Pros:
- You have to think creatively to make every day substances better
- You have to think critically tok make your every day items easier to use
- You work fixed hours
- You don't have a time limit to create new products
- Cons:
- You're job may include a lot of repetitiveness from redoing processes to make them more effective
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