Of course a biology major isn’t useless outside of medical school.
But why arbitrarily decide this? That’s moving the goalposts, IMO. The original question wasn’t “what jobs can I get that require a bachelor’s in biology and ONLY a bachelor’s in biology”; it was “is a biology degree useless?” If you can get a job with a bachelor’s in biology, even if it’s not directly related to biology and doesn’t require a biology degree specifically, then who cares whether someone with a business or art history or philosophy major could also have gotten that job?
By that logic, most majors are useless, since few jobs outside of specialized professions actually require any specific major. I work in technology and I know people with all sorts of majors here, including a lot that you wouldn’t expect based on what they are currently doing.
I also think there’s a conflation here of employment and salaries. Most biology majors (or people in general) don’t make six-figure salaries…ever, let alone right out of college. But that also wasn’t the question. I think a lot of people here have a skewed idea of what college graduates make coming out of college. $33,000 a year for a new graduate isn’t out of the ordinary and is enough to live a middle-class lifestyle in most areas of the United States. Will you be having caviar for breakfast, no, but you’ll be able to feed and clothe yourself. That’s what I started on when I graduated from college - living in New York - and I did just fine.
For some people, money is at the top of their list of considerations when choosing a career, and that’s great if that’s what they really care about. For others, other factors are more important - like geographical choice, flexibility, interest in the core tasks or the field in which the job is located, opportunities for advancement, professional development, benefits offered by the company, and many many other factors. I make pretty good money. I could probably had made more money had I chosen to go to medical school instead of getting a PhD, or maybe been a software developer…but I don’t want to do any of those things, and the amount of money I make is more than enough to live an upper-middle-class lifestyle in my metro area, and I LOVE my job. I don’t think some people understand how wonderful it really is to truly love your job. I have turned down multiple higher-paying offers because I love my job so much.
I do hiring for my job and this is patently untrue. I am honestly kind of baffled by anyone would think that, since 0-2 plainly means “some number between 0 and 2.” If we put “0-2 years of experience,” we’re looking for someone entry-level who has less than two years of experience, and someone with more than two years of experience would actually be overqualified for that role. There are a lot of reasons why a specific team/org/company might explicitly want to hire entry-level/junior people (they cost less, for one).
Honestly, sometimes even when we say “at least 3 years of experience” we are willing to hire someone really good with 1-2 years, especially if the market is competitive and it’s difficult to find someone with three. I have seen us hire someone more junior than we actually wanted, but I have not seen us hire someone more senior than we were going for.