Nobody's stopping you from sampling the goods, bud. Take a sip. Preferably after the test results come back clean, but hey you do you.
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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Preferably after the test results come back clean
That's no fun. That is like figuring out what the evidence room floor pills are first, rather than guessing after.
Honest work, but it's slow and repetitive work, definitely something where you should consider having a book handy for when you're waiting for the strips to be ready to record
Audiobooks for the win
Water testing is incredibly boring, but also an extremely important job. Quality of water available affects everything in society, from top to bottom. But, I get that it is totally monotonous.
That sounds like the kind of thing that could easily, and perhaps should, be automated.
Thing is most of water testing can be automated. There are electronic meters that can measure most important water properties like pH, electrical resistivity, total dissolved solids, turbidity, etc, which only require calibration from time to time. I am not sure why OOP was hired for manually testing water.
I did automation work for a sewage treatment center that did regular water testing as part of treatment. Most of these kinds of jobs are automated for the most part. There's always a human operator present to supervise and to do some small function that is still cheaper to have done manually instead of by machine.
I am definitely in favor of human supervision of many automated tasks.
In which case, the job becomes transferring the bottled samples into sample tubes in trays so that the machine can process them, and usually adding a barcode to each sample tube. The sample tubes need to be kept immaculate as well - some of the things that we test water for, like pesticides, are only present in miniscule concentrations. Might not actually save a great deal of time, and you need to buy and maintain a very expensive automated sampler.
When I used to work in the water industry, we were usually able to get PhD-qualified research chemists to do all this mind-numbing laboratory work. There's a bit of a surplus of qualified chemists compared to the number of chemist jobs available, so you got absurdly over-qualified people applying for these roles.
I specifically did not specialize in analytical chemistry because of this. It's relatively easy to get a job, but it's mind numbingly boring to do the same tests over and over and over.
I did physical chemistry. No jobs but at least no one knows what the fuck you can do.
(Incidentally I managed to get a job with energetic materials where my education is occasionally relevant)
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