Choosing a profession

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When choosing a future career, we should consider different factors. In my opinion, money is one of the most important factors when you make a choice. There are highly paid jobs and low-paid jobs. I think everybody wants to earn as much money as possible.

Are the professions of chemist, chemical engineering technologist or chemical laboratory analyst highly paid jobs nowadays?

On the other hand, it's good when you get satisfaction from your job. It is very important to choose a profession that suits your interests. In my opinion, a job should be interesting and socially important.

Does your future speciality suit your interests? Do you consider it to be socially important?

Training, promotional prospects and conditions should be also taken into account. You should also decide whether you want to work indoors or outdoors.

Which of these factors would you take into account first of all? Would you like to work indoors or outdoors? Would you like to have many business trips or study tours?

To make the right choice, you should take into account your traits of character. It goes without saying that to become a good doctor you must be patient, caring and kind. Teacher's work requires love for children, profound knowledge of subjects, and the ability to explain. A secretary has to be efficient and careful in order to do her work quickly and accurately.

What traits of character should a person have to become a good chemist?

There are so many people who influence us in choosing our occupation. Parents and friends play a very important role in our choices. My father works for an international company as a managing director. It is a highly paid job and it offers a lot of opportunities. My father is a friendly person and he is easy to talk to. But he thinks that I must choose my future profession according to my own taste and preferences.

Who influenced you in choosing your occupation?

I have always been interested in Chemistry and I am good at it. So my choice of profession is clear to me. A chemist is a person trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Then they describe them in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms. Chemists also carefully measure substance proportions, reaction rates, and other chemical properties.

Can you do any of the things mentioned above? Do you do all these things during your practical classes?

Chemists use this knowledge to learn the composition, structure, chemical reactivity, and properties of unfamiliar substances, as well as to reproduce and synthesize large quantities of useful naturally occurring substances and create new artificial substances and useful processes. Chemists may specialize in any number of sub-disciplines of chemistry.

Chemistry typically is divided into several major sub-disciplines. There are also several main cross-disciplinary and more specialized fields of chemistry. There is a great deal of overlap between different branches of chemistry, as well as with other scientific fields such as biology, medicine, physics, and several engineering disciplines.

What sub-disciplines are or will you specialize in?

The three major employers of chemists are academic institutions, industry, especially the chemical industry and the pharmaceutical industry, and government laboratories.

What sphere would you like to be employed in?

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