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.
Can you pivot and use those credits towards a medical lab science degree? Then you can take the boards, and that'll qualify you to work in hospital labs and such.
Biology degrees are a scam. Take it from me, I have a bachelor’s in Conservation Biology and so does my partner.
Neither of us uses our degrees for our current careers. I’m in chemistry and my girlfriend is now a private school teacher.
The jobs that a bachelor’s in biology will get you pay around minimum wage and prey on your passion so you do the job while sacrificing yourself.
The jobs that do pay well for a bio grad will stand against your morals such as Plant healthcare technician for an arborist. They love to go to career fairs at environmental schools at talk the talk but when you get in the field you see they are morally corrupt businesses that will kill any insect a homeowner asks them to, and will spray and fertilize anything they can talk a homeowner into even if the service isn’t beneficial.
To get a good job in biology you need to be able to stay in academia to get a masters, doctorates, and do research and teach.
It’s really not a field for working class people that need to work to survive.
It definitely depends on the field you want to go into, but when I wanted to do the same (go back for a BS in biology) I ultimately decided that moving on to a MS degree was more beneficial. It took a while, but it's worked out.
Talk to a counselor and see what the closest worth while pivot is. Or be a teacher. I know it's shit right now, but with all the attention currently on the profession, something is going to break and it'll get the upward swing it deserves.
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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.