Boy do I have a great afternoon ahead of me

[JModius1972]

I get to go bottle up and send away all the chemical waste from the experiments in the undergraduate organic chemistry labs this afternoon.  I looked in the waste cupboard and I swear some of the stuff's been in there since the building opened five years ago.  YEE HAW!  I'm SO looking forward to this!

GARHSKHSHKKH!!

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[thredlok]

you're a chemistry teacher?

[JModius1972]

Well...I teach chemistry at a university. This semester I've also been given the job of coordinating the labs and this is one of the jobs.

Oh well...

[Phil513]

Black plastic trash bag ===> dumpster.


;D

[thredlok]

Well...I teach chemistry at a university. This semester I've also been given the job of coordinating the labs and this is one of the jobs.

Oh well...

I work in the organic chem industry. I feel your pain ;D

[JModius1972]

I worked in the private sector up until two years ago.

Started having some medical problems that kept me from working in a lab. I was a little miffed...that's a lot of years to put in at school to find out (15 months after finishing school) that you can't work in a lab anymore.

Fortunately this position opened up or else I'd be making the best tasting coffee you'd ever had down at the local coffee shop. ;D

[thredlok]

I worked in the private sector up until two years ago.

Started having some medical problems that kept me from working in a lab. I was a little miffed...that's a lot of years to put in at school to find out (15 months after finishing school) that you can't work in a lab anymore.

Fortunately this position opened up or else I'd be making the best tasting coffee you'd ever had down at the local coffee shop. ;D


Did you become sensitized?

[JModius1972]

Well....seizurized is more the word. Unexplained to this day. :(

[Mark Wein]

That's a bummer...both the task and the health issues :(

[thredlok]

I work with phosgene derivatives, in the research and pilot labs. Over the past few years I've become more sensitive to chemicals, allergic reactions to certain compounds and such...that's why I ask. Not trying to be too nosey, and I'm sorry to hear about the Seizure. :(

I would teach but I doubt I have the patience ???

I don't know how Wein keeps his sanity ;)

[Mark Wein]

I work with phosgene derivatives, in the research and pilot labs. Over the past few years I've become more sensitive to chemicals, allergic reactions to certain compounds and such...that's why I ask. Not trying to be too nosey, and I'm sorry to hear about the Seizure. :(

I would teach but I doubt I have the patience ???

I don't know how Wein keeps his sanity ;)


Sanity? What Sanity? ;D

[JModius1972]

You know, honestly, last September during my first semester I didn't think I could do it. I never thought I'd have the patience. But, remarkably enough, it comes. And now I really enjoy it. I swear sometimes there are kids in my class who look at me like I'm a freak because I'm so excited teaching them. What they don't realize is part of that is to try and get THEM excited and part is because I enjoy the material.

So yeah...when I finished grad school I would have never guessed I'd be doing this. However, financially speaking, I'd go back to Industry in a heartbeat.