《財富》美國500強公司8大酷到沒朋友的工作崗位

化學和電子實驗室高級經理——美泰公司

????杰森?克洛斯科瑞提本來在加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）學習流行病學，后來他意識到，盡管這個專業能滿足他對數據和科學的熱愛，卻無法發掘他與生俱來的創造性。他說：“一旦意識到我未來的職業沒什么創造性，我就嚇壞了。”所以1998年他就離開了學校，被自己的一個高中同學招入了美泰公司（Mattel）。

????現在置身于40年前發明了Slime黏質物的實驗室，克洛斯科瑞提和他的團隊打造出了玩具所需的各種化學成分，比如芭比數碼指甲打印機所用的化妝品級的墨水，這臺打印機能直接在指甲上印出照片來。他近期上市的產品之一是風火輪車模（Hot Wheels Car）制造機。它能讓孩子們把融化的蠟注入一個車身模具，自己做出車模。它已經通過了一位嚴苛批評家——他外甥的考驗。他說：“很幸運他喜歡這玩具。”

Senior Manager, Chemistry and Electronics Laboratory - Mattel

????Jason Kroskrity was studying epidemiology at UCLA until he realized that while it satisfied his love of data and science, it wasn’t tapping into his creative side. “The idea of not having a creative piece as part of my profession started to scare me,” Kroskrity says. He left school and was recruited to Mattel by a high school friend in 1998.

????Now in the lab where Slime was born 40 years ago, Kroskrity and his team come up with the chemical components of toys, such as the cosmetic grade ink for a Barbie digital nail printer that paints photos right onto fingernails. One of his most recent projects to hit the shelves is the Hot Wheels Car Maker that lets kids inject melted wax into a car body mold. It passed muster with a tough critic—Kroskrity’s nephew. “Fortunately he liked it,” he says.