<p>Everything sschoe says is pretty much true. I really wouldn’t say chemistry is a viable profession anymore except for analytical chemists. If you want to do analytical you have to have a very high tolerance for very repetitive and often times mundane work doing quality control or method development. There’s a reason you can find a ton of qc or md jobs out there–because people hate doing it and companies constantly have to rehire people to do it. In the future I do see job coming back, but they may pay less, but you simply can’t wait 20 or 30 years for them to return. China and India produce scientists that definitely get the results you want for cheap, but they simply aren’t innovative. All they do is copy. We certainly do have the best trained scientists here, but there simply aren’t jobs. It will be decades before industry realizes the colossal mistake they are making by outsourcing a lot of work.</p>