When you think of a career in chemistry, you may visualize anolder man with grey hair mixing chemicals in a laboratory with alot of explosions. However, in today’s society there are manynontraditional careers for chemists. For example, chemists areemployed as cooks, chemical safety officers, cosmetic chemists,forensic chemists, scientific writers, flavor chemists, medicinalchemists, and in the pharmaceutical and public health industries.This week, you will research a nontraditional career in chemistry.Get started by using the links below:
American Chemical Society. (2015). Chemistry careers.Retrievedfrom  http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/careers/college-to-career/chemistry-careers.html Â
Royal Society of Chemistry. (2015). A future inchemistry. Retrieved fromhttp://www.rsc.org/careers/future/your-future-chemistry
After reading up on some nontraditional careers in chemistry,select a career that interests you the most. Then, during thisunit, address the following in your main post:
â—Â Â Â Â Â What is the nontraditional careerin chemistry that you selected and why?
â—Â Â Â Â Â What are the educationalrequirements and credentials needed for the career?
â—Â Â Â Â Â What type of work environmentwould you expect to experience on a day-to-day basis for yourchosen career?
â—Â Â Â Â Â How would you go about enteringinto this career field? What are some ways in which you couldtransition into this career field?
â—Â Â Â Â Â What skills are most needed forthis career field?
â—Â Â Â Â Â What might be some of thechallenges you would face within this career field?
