Where can a chemist work?

Chemists may work in a laboratory, office, or in the field collecting samples and data for analysis. Chemistry teachers work in a school classroom. Chemists who work in research may deal with pure chemistry, which means, in this career, you study chemical reactions in a lab or using computer models. Applied chemistry is when you work in the corporate world or for a government agency, and your chemistry work has a definite application such as creating a product or measuring the chemical content in water or soil. Often, applied chemistry professionals spend part of their work time outside of a laboratory.