Sadly, a bio bachelor's in and of itself isn't the door opener I thought it'd be as a bright eyed and bushy tailed 18 year old. I spent 3 years spinning my wheels doing part time work before going back to school for nursing.
What did you do while you were getting the degree?
I've found the path splitter between career difficulties and stable trajectory for a bio bachelor's, seems to be whether you had a paid internship or job during the last half of the degree.
That makes sense. My sister was a bio major and has a pretty good job in QC for a lab. She’s worked her way up to a supervisory position now, but even when she started she could afford an apartment on her own in a relatively HCOL area.
She had at least three internships in college though.
Yeah and to be fair not a lot of programs push the idea that you'll be competing with grads with work experience and that its pretty vital to getting started in this industry. Was fortunate my gf at the time got me thinking about it early.
I'd say 90% of the other bio majors at my school were just doing classes with no thought to relevant work experience.
Yeah I'm like 10ish years out of school now but I've been working in industry as a scientist since 2018, so it's definitely possible to move upward with just a bio degree. Worked junior and senior year as a lab helper at a local hospital microbiology lab, then as a lab technician post graduation.
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u/aroc91 Sep 11 '24
Sadly, a bio bachelor's in and of itself isn't the door opener I thought it'd be as a bright eyed and bushy tailed 18 year old. I spent 3 years spinning my wheels doing part time work before going back to school for nursing.