Uh. You're wrong. i have a Bachelors Degree in Molecular Biology, and I've worked as a molecular biologist or as a chemist since college graduation in 1994. I've worked with Ph.D. physicists, career chemists, and technicians with only a high school degree. I made them coffee, and they drank it, so I know they were there. Who would be developing new medicines, for example, if not chemists? Who would be studying the structure of materials that have failed spectacularly? Who would be screening people for drugs of abuse? I've worked for major pharmaceutical producers and one of the best known plating bath companies. I was unemployed, they had an opening, I had skills, I offered, they called me in, I put on an ugly, ill-fitting suit and chatted with them, and they told me to come work for them. Simple, really. Slow, but simple.