Kimyagerden CRA’ya ve umutsuzluğa

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1. Ordinary_Site_5350

   Aralık 9, 2025 - 10:00 am

   I have a lot of resources and advice that’s appropriate for your situation – you can look at my profile and see my other comments explaining my “process” for mining skills and finding other jobs.

   But I think in your situation the real issue is your mental health. Either burnout or depression or both. I had to take months off work and go through an intensive outpatient program called “Work Returns” – group therapy 3 times a week and there was a curriculum that didn’t help me until I chose to actually do the homework. Plus two therapists.

   Between the program, med adjustments, and forcing myself to begin exploring hobbies, I finally did find my way back – but my work situation is vastly different now. I can’t do what I was doing.

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2. 9ubj

   Aralık 9, 2025 - 10:00 am

   Sales. I can’t stress this enough. Or potentially anything quantitative.

   Chemistry as a job is meh. A chemistry degree though is very well respected (even to this day when degrees as a whole are losing value). And it boils down to the fact that… well… it’s hard!

   I hold both a bachelor’s degree in chem and a master’s degree in physical chemistry + I have been writing in both the python and C++ programming languages for over a decade now. I worked as a senior software engineer at a defense company for 7 years (before burning out).

   My close friend, who also holds multiple chem degrees now sells at big pharma and earns a decent living. Another one is now a day trader at a financial firm. And last, one other left for law school (very common).

   One problem I see with chem grads time and time again is that they think they are stuck to doing lab work. This is not the case. They don’t realize that there’s a life outside of chemistry, and many non-chem companies are particularly interested in people who have the quantitative mindset that comes with finishing a degree in chem.

   FWIW, Angela Merkel, a prominent German politician, has a background in quantum chemistry.

   EDIT: I want to add that you can’t just hop to a finance job with a chem degree. But you can upskill, for example, by doing something like a “data analysis with AI” type of course and pair it with your chem degree, which might greatly open doors. Whether it’s in something like big pharma or finance

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