<p>No one pursues science to become rich, but no one should have to constantly live with terrible job prospects, permatemp jobs, and underemployment either. Pursue engineering. What are you going to do with a say a PhD in organic chemistry? Work in the pharmaceutical industry or become a real life Walter White? Pharma is moving more and more towards biologics. Drugs that require SAR and small molecule development work gets shipped overseas to Chinese and Indian CROs. It only takes a handful of chemists to link the major pieces (which took all the work) together. </p>
<p>No one hires physical chemists except academia. Analytical out of all fields in chemistry probably has the best prospects, but you have to be extremely careful what you specialize in and must become proficient in techniques that are relevant to industry.</p>