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[rileygray1996]

If I were an expert like you what kind of jobs would there be for me when I grow up? Thank you

[deleted-71417]

Hi,

If you were an expert like me you look for a job as a chemist or software engineer. Both can be really exciting careers. One way to find out more is to visit the Science Careers tab on the Science Buddies home page. Here is a link:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... l?From=Tab

For information on chemistry careers visit the web page of the American Chemical Society:

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/c ... 6301eeca0f

If your interests run to computers, look into the Association for Computing Machinery:

http://computingcareers.acm.org/

And the IEEE Computer Society:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/stud ... ies/career

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/buildyourcareer/home

There is a lot more information available- just search www.google.com for the career your are interested in.

Science careers can be more fun than you can currently imagine in your wildest dreams. I never ever found any job I held to be boring or dull or routine. Most of the time work was like playing with a serious purpose, and a lot more profitable than playing.

Good luck and keep dreaming big dreams!

Barrett L Tomlinson

(I am a retired developer of scientific instruments, trained as a PhD Biophysical chemist. Most of the time the work I actually did was programming microcomputers and PC s to do chemical analysis. It was a blast!!!)

[deleted-71360]

Oh my, where do I begin?

In school I wanted to be a microwave communications engineer and work for the phone company. Part of the engineering degree program required a FORTRAN programming course (I was outraged at that requirement). Took the course and got an easy A, took a second FORTRAN course and got another easy A. Took a PL/1 course and got another easy A. Did a special project plotting microwave antenna field strength patterns (not so easy but still another A) and the computer people thought I was just drawing flowers, they do look a lot alike.

I graduated when the Apollo project had just been shut down and aerospace engineers were pumping gas for a living. I was hired to build automatic test equipment for F-14 radar parts. Microwave and computers, perfect match for the job.

The microwave took a backseat to programming and my career centered around the hardware to software interface where the ones and zeros turned into high voltages and low voltages and I specialized into automatic test equipment almost exclusively. I can now break anything you can build. Never trust software to be safe when dealing with lethal quantities of mass or energy.

The aerospace industry went sour about 1990 and I moved into consulting on a wide variety of topics, all electronic or computer based. Then in 2000 I changed to the transit industry with smarts card, again, more computers and electronics, and then onto magnetic stripe ticket technology. Current examples of these are credit cards that you tag or swipe at the checkout counter, although in my case they are train tickets.