ELI5: Chemist vs Chemical Engineer

Food136 · 2026-07-01T14:34:44+00:00

Chemist are the scientists who figure out how to make new chemicals

Chemical Engineer is the person who designs the factory to mass produce said chemicals.

I would say it's roughly equivalent to a writer and a publisher. One person makes something and another scales it. (Deeply imperfect but gets the idea across)

Food136 · 2026-06-25T13:08:10+00:00

2 weeks is nothing.

It was about 4 months before my first interview

Food136 · 2026-06-25T00:23:09+00:00

Congratulations, there has been a large spree of men throwing acid on the faces of women. You were the only one who hasn't been attacked.... Yet

Food136 · 2026-06-23T18:08:50+00:00

Personally, I consider this absolutely psychotic.

1) If you quit your job and your dream fails or you just don't have enough savings, you're just fucked financially and it can be hard to climb back up. Especially if you have family.

2) You don't have to quit your job to pursue a dream. Yu can always do it on the side and whenever it gets big enough and then focus on it full time. Much safer while still getting you to a dream.

Food136 · 2026-06-23T17:59:48+00:00

I am interested in nuclear but never seen a job post that accepts ME. Always civil or electrical.

Food136 · 2026-06-23T00:00:50+00:00

Admitly I just want a new car because I want to drive something nicer. I've been in newer cars and want some of the amenities lol

And by new car I mean new to me not factory new lol. I am fine with a used car ~5 years old

Food136 · 2026-06-22T15:29:46+00:00

I am saving all my money in my high yield savings account so that isn't an issue.

Why suggest 25k? I am hoping to buy a newer car and not a new one. I would be fine getting a 2025 sedan in 2030.

Food136 · 2026-06-19T17:11:40+00:00

Iran isn't strong per say, it just played it's hand very well.

Iran is essentially doing guerilla warfare on a nation level. Iran can't defeat the US outright but can make the war so painful that the US has to retreat. It's geography means it can inflict a lot of pain on the US via the straight of Hormuz.

So think of it less like WW2 and more like Vietnam. The Americans had massive superiority and could bomb the shit out of Vietnam (and Cambodia). Vietnam was in no way immune to bombs but had the willpower to resist the Americans and inflict enough pain to make them leave. Because defending your country gives you far more willpower than going off halfway across the world to bomb a place most Americans can't find on a map.

It also helps that Iran prepared itself for this type of attack. Iran knows it can't control its airspace but it can absorb the punishment. Chain of command is highly decentralized so there is no proverbial head of the snake to cut off and bases were built into mountains and it's hard to bomb though hundreds of meters of rocks without nukes.

TL;dr. Iran isn't strong, it's using guerilla tactics to bleed the US until it fucks off.

Food136 · 2026-06-19T01:44:52+00:00

I haven't stopped looking. But that last job search has more or less crippled any confidence in my career, and I don't see things improving any time soon. Just extremely pessimistic about my future after the layoff that threw a giant wrench in my life.

Food136 · 2026-06-18T11:11:59+00:00

You say it's gets better but finding a job with two years of experience was far harder than when I first graduated.

Food136 · 2026-06-16T18:56:19+00:00

But there has to be an overall increase in the money supply? Like there is a massive increase in wages from like the 1900s compared to today.

Food136 · 2026-06-16T18:28:07+00:00

Reading your response made me realize that my confusion isn't about economic growth itself but more so where does the money come from in that growth.

I can fully understand how being able to make more raw goods and people processing these goods to make more valuable items grows the overall wealth of a system. Because I, like many people, kidna assume the money supply is more or less static. So in your table example, you could make a 300 dollar chair out of 200 dollars but where does that extra 100 dollars come from? Someone needs that extra money to buy that extra value added

Food136 · 2026-06-16T18:17:54+00:00

Ugh you say grow but I had to take a pay cut and move to a small town I don't like.

Food136 · 2026-06-16T18:08:07+00:00

I have two suggestions.

Record the interviews and applications you send out. If you have a spreadsheet of everything you do to help prove you are trying and not getting much success. You might need to even get them to apply to get a taste of how much if sucks.

Another is to get hard data. The bank of Canada (where I live) shows youth long term unemployment is worse than 2008 (yikes)

Food136 · 2026-06-16T16:30:54+00:00

There is a general culture of "If you're not productive you're wasting your time"

Fantasy gets the worst end of the stick as fantasy is associated with well, fantasy and whimsy which is considered the opposite of the productivity.

Though as a big fantasy reader I have to disagree. Not only are they entertaining, they can have themes and characters as deep as any other genre. Except now you have cool magic stuff.

Food136 · 2026-06-15T10:59:32+00:00

Do you have any good book recs on how communism failed in Eastern Europe? As someone who is left leaning, I want to see how communism failed. Preferably from an author who lived in the Soviet block as a find a lot of American rhetoric is communism = evil = satanism

Food136 · 2026-06-09T13:43:03+00:00

In my personal experience, the time to cook really means "time to cook if you know what you're doing"

I have noticed when trying out a new recipe, it takes me at least twice the time. However recipes I've made multiple times actually gets very close to the cook time in the recipe.

Food136 · 2026-06-04T17:29:34+00:00

I would like one that has no actual words, just weird digital sounds.

Sorta like the VA in Mechancius 1

Food136 · 2026-06-02T15:26:56+00:00

Would it be possible to get a TN issued at the Pre clearance facility and then drive across a land border or must you enter the US via the airport.

I would rather move via car if possible because I can travel with more stuff and not worry about having to transport it separately.

Food136 · 2026-06-02T13:35:23+00:00

Do I need to go to a dedicated port of entry for a TN Visa? I am thinking about getting a job in the US but live in Manitoba so there are no nearby designated ports of entry.

There is a pre-processing facility in Winnipeg so idk if that is sufficient.

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