High Stakes Demographics - How much do you make a year?

[J.A.Sucker]

Physical Chemist doing nanotechnology research and development. I like the research more than the development.

[kapw7]

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Physical Chemist doing nanotechnology research and development. I like the research more than the development.

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I hope you won't regret it when you become older with higher expenses and responsibilities. I'm a Synthetic Chemist and I've always thought that doing research would always be so cool and who the hell cares for the big money. However when you are struggling to buy a house, to raise a family (not yet for me), to have a decent disposable income and on the other hand have society thinking that working for the pharma industry is unethical to say the least, then you start to have second thoughts.

I've gradually started losing my interest in science, first time since I know myself. I then discovered poker and ended up making more money than my real job (I'm NOT a high stakes player, just running hot...) I still enjoy my job and I still get excited when an experiment works etc. but without the extra income my life would be much different. Our society really sucks but that's the way it is.