When I was taking chemistry classes... a few decades ago, organic chemistry was "all the rage". This was with the professors at a highly regarded if smaller un

When I was taking chemistry classes... a few decades ago, organic chemistry was "all the rage". This was with the professors at a highly regarded if smaller undergraduate chemistry program. Inorganic chemistry, some of which actually interested me more, seemed to be considered at least by a fair fraction of them comparatively sterile and having a more constrained future, especially with respect to the budding careers of us future chemists. I don't think that was a complete nor monolithic opinion, but I do remember it being a significant one that was being actively impressed upon impressionable young students. Then, while organic chemistry didn't exactly decline, the semi-conductor industry and related applications, as well as a big spate of other advanced materials engineering, all took off. It gets pretty hard to predict what's going to be hot, in the future -- and when. Work at being at least somewhat of a polyglot, and you get to enjoy it all!