How different is Chemistry as a job than a class in school? Are you constantly doing experiments?

Question: How different is Chemistry as a job than a class in school? Are you constantly doing experiments?
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Asked by A.B.Reid to Mzamo on 7 Nov 2016.
- Mzamo Shozi answered on 7 Nov 2016:
  
  Before you start doing an experiment, you need to search and read information previously written by people who have done similar experiments before. That allows to pick up on things they did not do, that you could try, or you could improve on what they did. You then do some experiments and you get the results. Again you have to compare your results to what other people who did something similar got. So its basically experiments and reading in combination.

Question: How different is Chemistry as a job than a class in school? Are you constantly doing experiments?