The Chemportal

At my previous job as an entry level process chemist there were times where people who were "high" on the corporate ladder would visit the pilot lab to assess its development and make certain that the site was properly situated for what would be future visitations from the FDA.  There were several sectors of one which was the mixer room the others were essentially related to engineering processes.  These people from corporate would not enter the mixer room while they would be very critical of these other sectors ; evidently none of them wanted to enter a room which stocked various toxic chemicals. 

We chemists are exposed to different chemicals each day and are going to be for the time being that one is a chemist.  Does this have any influence on our mortality as compared to people of the general population?

Some links related to this matter

Chemists may have higher suicide rates than dentists

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010420.html

Women in chemistry have higher suicide rates

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5DD1031F937A3575BC0A961948260

Possible problems with the research applied contemporarily

http://yarchive.net/chem/chemist_death_rate.html

There's a lot of stress and anxiety that comes from being in school along with the fact that one has to dedicate oneself to a schedule for the first half of the day while being preoccupied with the studies for the remaining half of the day.  Now that I'm working, each day is a lot more "simpler".  I am definitely appreciative of the simpler schedule.  Face it, any excitement about school is delusional .  While excitement about research is understandable. 

I enjoy having a regular schedule each day and not being frantically transported from classroom to classroom, in fact I really would prefer not to go into a classroom and take notes again for as long as I live; although I enjoy the learning and am definitely respectful of the institution as well as all of the people who maintain it.  It seems that school was some sort of a non realistic realm and now that I realized myself out of it there is much more of a sense of where I am.  Perhaps "Simpler" means that while the aura of purpose and destiny is no longer present with any part of my schedule there's a sense of definite peace that arises from the realization of the transition from this illusion to a reality.

P.S. My supervisor has found my blog and some of the chemistry posts on this blog have been hidden since they contained material relevant to company research.