The general conclusion was that the program was very successful in ensuring job placement. That result has obvious implications for retraining scientists at all levels. In particular, it provides hope for men and women who have moved from their original field into sales, marketing or areas of science no longer of interest to their company, and who would like to change their career paths.
A woman who returned to full-time work as a chemist at the Baltimore City Department of Water and Waste after 25 years at home raising nine children indicates the type of individual helped by the project. "When I retired for the first time, the research laboratories for which I worked had just designated one of its physical scientists as the Instrumentation Department, and the only thing resembling an instrument that I had touched was the original Beckman titrator," she recalled. Since starting her new job in ...
