jobs: chemistry vs technology

[Chooco]

my plan was always to be a programmer, i started to learn programming through several books on C and C++ but then there was the whole thing of internet crash or whatever, lots of technology companies dying and nothing going right.
aparently chemistry is still huge. what do you think i should major in, organic chemistry or stick to the good ol Unix, databases, C, PHP and what not?

[sven222]

I'd have to say chemistry, but that is only because I really like it. Really it's what you like better, chem or programming

Chemistry and technology will always be here. and cvertain elements can make technology go down and make chemistry go down. go into the feild you think you will enjoy most. there will always be "crashes" get used to it.

[Lemon[H]ead]

You're overlooking the obvious "Bum around" option. I would've voted for that

[Warthog]

lol lemon

[Pshawn5]

lol lemon...i would go with lemon's vote :P

[geekgrl]

Chooco, Do what you love the most.

[babydingbat]

Originally posted by geekgrl
Chooco, Do what you love the most.

I'm with geekgrl!

[Lemon[H]ead]

Chooco, follow your heart and let it lead you wherever...uh leads you. You will find it is at the bumming around bit. (this is peer pressure at its height)

I know that I love computers and so i'm gonna work in the computing industry, even in spite of all the stuff thats goin on. Or i'll be a bum

[zskillz]

someone with a chemistry degree is a hot commodity. not only for industry, but even more so for graduate level work (masters or Ph.D.) I know this because I'm about to graduate in about 3 weeks (yeeehhaawww!!) and just spent this entire semester being flown from school to school so that I could visit and decide if I wanted to go there. The schools paid for everything... flights, meals, transportation. and I wasn't staying at motel 8's!

anyway, chemistry will always have more staying power then a lot of jobs because... well, truthfully, not a whole lot of people like doing it, and not a whole lot of people are even good at doing it. sure, there will be lulls (as expected), but as chem is a central science, it's here to stay, and is being used more and more throughout industry.

perhaps you could do what I intend to do.... I suggest you do a little research into the field of molecular electronics or moletronics. That may be something that intrests you.

good luck
-Z