Career transitions

Join a pharmaceutical company, and with its help you can cUmb the academic ladder. Such an employer customarily subsidizes the tuition costs of part-time, business-related studies leading to a master s or doctor s degree in chemistry. Sometimes it also underwrites the research needed to complete a doctoral dissertation. Then, it can furnish laboratory space and services, modern instruments and glassware, supplies of chemicals, or advice from experienced industrial researchers who are coworkers. With your doctorate conferred, you can seek an adjunct professor s post. It can allow you to teach part-time at a nearby university even while you pursue full-time research in industry. Employer-subsidized graduate degrees, which are not limited to chemistry but can include business or law, extend their recipient s horizon. They can facilitate advancement or career transitions. 

Some students take advanced degrees in business or law, which prepare them to make careers outside science. Others find work that uses all their qualifications. Both kinds of career transition can occur within one company if it is large or growing. But student-employees must be alert to the possibility that to work immediately in their new fields they may have to find employment in a different corporation or location. No company that initially hires a chemist thereby guarantees later employment to the same person as a lawyer. A new attorney wishing to continue his employment in law but not in science must hunt work like any other job applicant. 

One of the key objectives associated with providing risk and hazard information is to help set realistic safety expectations. That is, the provision of safety and hazard information can form a realistic safety preview. Chapter 3 describes four different types of job applicant and described how the four types vary in terms of safety expectations and previous job experience. Job applicants classified as school leaver or career transition applicants will have the least amount of relevant job experience and are likely to have the most unrealistic safety expectations. Clearly, safety expectation setting procedures will be of most benefit to those job applicants. However, it would be unwise to forgo the use of a realistic safety preview, based on the assumption that the job applicant, because of their previous experience, would not benefit from the process. Tables 3.1 and 3.2, in Chap. 3, show that there are safety risks associated with aU job applicants, including career-focused applicants, and these can be reduced by providing a realistic safety preview. Thus, it is... 

When interviewing a scientist who wants to make the career transition into the field of communications, I look for certain skills sets and personality traits. These include writing ability, people skills, computer proficiency, planning and organizational ability, presentation skills, and attention to detail. 1 will be looking to see if you will be able to interact effectively and tactfully with other staff, clients, and vendors that you can be a team player with a positive attitude that you can work independently, but will know when to ask for help, and that you have a professional demeanor. 

William Rankme has been credited with many things derived from his brilliant career, with perhaps the most unique being the transition of his empirical work into scientific theories published for the benefit of engineering students. He is considered the author of the modern philosophy of the steam engine and also the greatest among all founders of and contributors to the science of thermodynamics. 

Although ADHD generally is considered a childhood disorder, symptoms can persist into adolescence and adulthood. The prevalence of adulthood ADHD is estimated to be 4%, with 60% of adults having manifested symptoms of ADHD from childhood.8,9 Further, problems associated with ADHD (e.g., social, marital, academic, career, anxiety, depression, smoking, and substance-abuse problems) increase with the transition of patients into adulthood. 

After 1951, I decided to look towards the United States for continuation of my career. We thought of Brian as a possible post doc to take with us and wanted to get him married before the transition. Unfortunately, Brian evaluated girls principally by their intellectual abilities and the Viennese Ms. Rosenburg had given him the model. He found it difficult to meet her equal and we had eventually to point out to him that he couldn t get a Visa to come to America with a woman unless he were married to her. Shortly, after this, he did invite me to Daguize, our Saturday cafe, to meet a former Latvian pharmacist, Nina, and later I served to take Nina up the aisle at the wedding of Nina and Brian (1954). 

Interviewees discussed careers in the technical management tracks, and making the transition from one track to another. One Cohort III interviewee commented ... 

Spain, E. CAREER Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Transition Metal Chalcogenide Deposition using Translationally Hot Atoms, 1997 (NSF CHE 9703345). 

Your emotional well-being will depend on how well you make the transition from work to other activities. This includes developing a new personal identity apart from your career, leaving colleagues behind, making new friends, developing positive relationships with family members, and getting involved in activities that maintain and enhance your self-esteem. 

Some people, including women themselves, continue to believe that only men retire. This misconception ignores career women who have the same retirement adjustment problems that men have. Also, it falsely assumes that women not holding down nine-to-five jobs can t retire. This may stem from the old saying A man works from sun to sun, but a woman s work is never done. Homemakers often have a more difficult transition than those who retire from other types of work. Women who have been homemakers all their lives need to insist on being a full partner when their spouses retire. 

The transition to retirement is not always smooth. It can be a period of emotional ups and downs and psychological detours. Making the transition is like going from one safe harbor (career) to another (retirement). 

When you begin to feel good about being a retiree, and when you have learned to capitalize on your advantages, you ll know you ve made progress. When you look back at your career and are happy with where you are, you have made the transition. When you think less about retirement because you are too busy enjoying the day-to-day adventures of your new role, you have entered a new comfort zone. 

The last of the important concepts that we will consider is self-assembly. Most chemists have, at some time in their careers, wondered why molecules cannot just make themselves. The process by which molecules build themselves is termed self-assembly and is a feature of many supramolecular systems. If the molecular components possess the correct complementary molecular recognition features and their interaction is thermodynamically favourable then simply mixing them could result in the specific and spontaneous self-assembly of the desired aggregate. This assumes that there is no significant kinetic barrier to the assembly process. The recognition features within the components may be any of the intermolecular bonding processes mentioned above, but we will be concerned with interactions between transition metal ions and polydentate ligands. 

Klaus H. Theopold was born in Berlin, studied at the Universitat Hamburg for his Vordiplom in 1977, and at UC Berkeley, where he obtained his PhD in 1982 under the direction of Professor R. G. Bergman. After spending a year as postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor R. R. Schrock at MIT, he began his independent career in 1983 as an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. In 1990 he moved to the University of Delaware, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. His scientific interests encompass synthetic and mechanistic studies of transition metal compounds, in particular paramagnetic organometal-lics, polymerization catalysis, and coordination compounds relevant to the activation of O2. 

Early adult transition Transition from adolescence through exploring and experimenting with different roles and career choices mainly through course work and practical experiences... 

Age 30 transition Reassessing initial career choices and a sense of exigency to stablize important life choices such as family and relationships... 

Midlife transition Time of questioning and reevaluation of life and career choices that can be stressful and lead to a focus on redoubling efforts toward career or change in career and values... 

FIGURE 1.3 Modeling career pathways for URM biomedical research scientists, where k= fraction of students graduating per year by ethnicity, W=white, B=black, H=Hispanic. At each transition, the fraction of minority students who go on to the next level is lower than for nonminority students. Fractional completion rates derived from data found in Science and Engineering Indicators, 1996, NSF. 

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