bio majors - is there a point?

ccguy
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:59:44 +0000

i hear all this talk about “biotechnology jobs” or “bio-so-and-so is the future.” can anyone with experience or industry knowledge attest to all of this? and can you really have a decent living (say 40-50k eventually) in this industry with maybe up to a master’s alone, and is there a decent market for such jobs?

also what specific type of jobs would these be anyway (i’m hoping beyond the “technician” level). it’s a little hard to research this since the jobs seem fairly new… sometimes i hear that most of the decent bio-___ jobs are going to engineers, including the environmental ones. i’m not interested in management/marketing type jobs, by the way… i guess i’m thinking along the lines of research or at least anything that requires a certain level of intellect and creativity in bio/science… i just tend to associate that with a phD.