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Old 2008-10-12, 00:07
vpnkflyd vpnkflyd is offline
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Default Careers associated with Majoring in Biology

Any suggestions besides Doctor or any career in which the salary is less than $55,000
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Old 2008-10-12, 02:24
Darkshock Darkshock is offline
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The only way you're going to make over $55,000 is to get your PhD and become a researcher or professor.
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Old 2008-10-12, 02:33
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The only way you're going to make over $55,000 is to get your PhD and become a researcher or professor.


Exactly, it applies to all sciences but especially to biology. You need further qualifications to do anything really.
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Old 2008-10-12, 03:46
Mantikore Mantikore is offline
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vet? i hear they make as shit load of money

research is always shitty money

you could also be a nutritionist

basically, you only get a good paycheck with biology if you actually serve people directly.
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Old 2008-10-12, 18:31
napoleon_complex napoleon_complex is offline
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If you did microbiology, you could get a job at some federal or state agencies.

With a general biology B.S. degree, there won't be a ton of job possibilities that start above 50,000. You'd have to either specialize or get the advanced degree(preferred option IMO).
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Old 2008-10-12, 20:18
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Conservationist.

If you can't find work within the field, you can always go work in a cushy government job. Additional certifications aren't hard to get within biology.

It really depends on your interests.
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Old 2008-10-12, 20:58
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Princeton Review's website is good for giving information on majors and careers associated with them, but it is fucking up and not letting me get past the search screen for some reason.

If you want to work in the field, expect to do graduate study. On the other hand, there are plenty of unrelated jobs out there for people that just happen to have a college degree. My old store manager had a biology degree in fact. Not a very appealing job, but he made about $70k a year.

A lot of premeds are biology majors. A lot of premeds that never go to medical school go into sales in the medical field. Could be drugs, could be surgical equipment or other machines and whatnot.
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Old 2008-10-12, 21:07
averageBT averageBT is offline
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shit man, no majors seems to be good in this day and age. I plan on majoring in something like biology, preferably Biotechnology...
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Old 2008-10-26, 03:15
thatcoolkid thatcoolkid is offline
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Conservationist.

If you can't find work within the field, you can always go work in a cushy government job. Additional certifications aren't hard to get within biology.

It really depends on your interests.


A buddy I work w/ graduated with a degree in Wildlife Conservation. Did some stint out in the pacific northwest doing a gov. survey on spotted owls, which lasted 6 mo. Time was up and he couldn't find SHIT afterwards out there in terms of jobs so he came back.

Need higher learnings for sure. :\

But I'm equally fucked right now as a Bio major. We'll see what happens.
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Old 2008-11-02, 23:55
stinkingfish stinkingfish is offline
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synthetic biology looks really cool.
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Old 2008-11-04, 06:44
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shit man, no majors seems to be good in this day and age. I plan on majoring in something like biology, preferably Biotechnology...


Biotech has been going healthy the past few years, and for my own sake, I hope it continues to do so. *fingers crossed*


But a higher degree is becoming more and more essential.
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Old 2008-11-22, 00:05
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I'm taking a bio degree, and I can't think of any job in biology that doesn't require some form of a graduate degree to actually go somewhere.
Most fields in the science area tend to follow that pattern too.
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Old 2008-12-11, 04:42
shwak23 shwak23 is offline
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I'm taking a bio degree, and I can't think of any job in biology that doesn't require some form of a graduate degree to actually go somewhere.
Most fields in the science area tend to follow that pattern too.


I'm currently majoring in bio. I can do three years of bio then do three years at a pharmacy school and then make 80k plus straight out of school.

NOAA offers many many jobs for bio majors. You could definitly go straight out of college into that and probablly retire at 45-55. Gov Jobs FTW
 
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