<p>What jobs can I find with a degree in Chemistry? Is there any possible way it could lead to renewable energies as well?</p>
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<p>With a chemistry degree you will either be unemployed, working an awful dead end lab job via a temp agency for $15 an hour, or if you are smart you will go to professional school or grad school in a nonscience subject or do yourself a favor and just don’t do a science undergrad degree unless you are positive you are going to professional school.</p>
<p>The unemployment and salaries are terrible for chemistry grads and even worse for biology grads.
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only 29% of Chemistry grads get full time jobs (even though unemployment is listed as 15% for BS grads it is much worse) and 1/2 of those 29% are in really crappy dead end techie jobs in academia. The average salary is $35k and most of the jobs are in high cost of living areas (NY/NJ/CT, CA, and MA) which make it even more pathetic. $35k in NYC=Big Time Poverty.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the imput! Why are chem jobs so bad then? You would think they are an important part in the world today right?</p>
<p>They are but when you have a huge pool of third world slaves willing to work 18 hours a day in a lab for peanuts, businesses run by ammoral creatins who seems to have a derogatory attitude towards their science staff and a short sighted business philosphy, and finally a govt that believes their lies and seems happy to enable them it all falls apart.</p>
<p>Science is only worth it if you have a Phd. or one of the PSM degrees. Even the “regular” Masters in Bio/Chem etc. don’t seem to be worth much…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say the PhD is worth it. There are tons of PhD’s out there unable to find a job working dead end post-docs until they are 40 and give up.</p>
<p>Ok so the chemistry question is answered but what do you guys think is the best major for renewable energy etc.? Also, do you know any one who works in that field and if so, how did they get into it? Thanks a bunch!</p>
<p>renewable energy mabe chemical engineering or other engineering.</p>
<p>If you like chemistry, why not something a little different but related instead with better prospects–like chemical engineering related to petrol or materials engineering related to something like renewables as was mentioned or batteries.</p>