Chromatography Forum

Ron, I think you summarized things very well

By the way, I didn't mean to imply that users of chromatography were in any way less talented/intelligent than chromatographers (well, okay, maybe a little bit). It's just that they have other priorities; for them, chromatography is just a tool, rather than a profession.

In addition to Ron's message...

You can always have a feeling of what the market wants and what is the future of chromatographers by having a look on the job descriptions of today. I have already made my point several times so I won't go further on it...

Instead I will paraphrase what Victor asked. Let's say that people would like to hire a post-doc or a young staff member what would be the skills they would like to see in that person. People from university and industry will have slightly different opinion on this. So the question is:
What is the ideal canditate looks like to you? or...
If you could do it again; go back to graduate school (PhD) and/or then to a two years post doc what would you like to learn (assume that you do not have the knowledge you have now on chromatography just the knowledge that you have of the market) to be a jackpot for the today employer -university, national lab, industry-?

I will post my answer later, but I do not want to bias other people...