Ive watched the show probably 6 times at this point, as well as BCS 3 times now. What I can’t wrap my head around is why Walt is a HS chemistry teacher and car washer.
So my understanding about Walt’s career is that he had a Masters degree. Worked at Sandia labs. Won a Nobel prize there and used the prize money to found Grey Matter Technologies.
Let’s assume he could not get a job at a pharmaceutical company or some other Chemistry based research job because he was a bad team player which perhaps ruined his reputation to get such a position. That’s my head canon that makes sense. That or he just preferred being an educator, and in a few scenes and especially in some deleted scenes we see t


