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Chemistry is an amazing science and we probably need a lot more chemists.... But I'm sure glad I don't have to go near any of this stuff! Hard to believe ther
by eternityforest 3y ago
Chemistry is an amazing science and we probably need a lot more chemists....
But I'm sure glad I don't have to go near any of this stuff!
Hard to believe there's any hobby chemists out there messing with mercury and stuff, handling most of these chemicals seems like something you'd only ever do for a huge salary or if you believed your work was going to save many lives.
- abid786 3y agoAs an organic chemist who became a software engineer, I’ll say that it’s more than just money (Or curing disease) that drives a lot of people. There’s just something inherently amazing about having the literal world supply of a compound that you made using your own hands (and the laws of nature). And in organic chemistry, there’s a bit of subjectivity and art too - designing compounds, designing a chemical route to synthesize them, etc.
- evrimoztamur 3y agoWhy did you become a software engineer in the end? You speak very highly of chemistry (as a software engineer who's flirting with the idea of going into chemistry).
- eternityforest 3y agoThat is pretty cool, it almost sounds like what drives ASM programmers, but even lower level than that. It doesn't seem to be 100% computerized yet, people still talk about doing real experiments where they expect to find something new about what they're studying, as opposed to just finding their own mistakes or reading about other people's discoveries. I'd imagine that's probably part of the appeal for some people, in tech so many of us almost never discover anything new that would be of interest outside that one specific project, except an occasional framework bug.