Which branch of chemistry is useful for studying either analytical and organic chemistry?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

It actually depends on what area you want to work in, or which area you see yourself doing well in, 5 years down the line. Seriously speaking, there is always a field you are good at and there is always another option, which might be a good earning option. You need to decide your priorities, do you want to earn or do you want job satisfaction. You need to take that decision. No one can help you decide that. It completely depends on your strengths/weaknesses and your aspirations.

manpreet 2 years ago

Being in a point where I need to choose a domain to follow for my graduate studies and after having worked in lengthy internships in both analytical and organic chemistry, I find myself puzzled as I don’t know what to follow. On one hand, organic chemistry laboratory routine appears to me much more fascinating and active as well as much more powerful with respect to the amount of things one can create with his skills. On the other hand though, from what I can see from friends doing their Ph.D in the said domain, each and every one of them end up adopting a slave like lifestyle while working on a project without having much of an initiative on the said project and the rest of their careers continues to exist under a very competitive and ultra-hard working daily life. Analytical chemistry, although appearing to my personal taste very mundane when it comes to the further development of known techniques like HPLC, it is a very exciting domain when it comes to the creation of new sensors, biosensors and filters (although for this last one I still haven’t found a good group working on these things). Lifestyle while doing a PhD appears to be regulated by the student itself and not so much imposed. Plus, I don’t know if this is urban myth but companies appear to be very much in need of analytical chemists. All in all, I am lost. I would like to make a choice that in my career regardless of how competitive and how hard working is my lifestyle, will give me the excitement of discovery as well as excitement of creation. I don’t know, if all these things are doable or even existing all together in the way the field of research in chemistry is evolving.

manpreet 2 years ago

That is your choice, but Organic Chemistry has lots of scope now a days. In organic chemistry, you can become a scientist.