Just How Much Credence Should I Give to My Degree?

Knowsstuff
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 12:34:33 +0000

Maybe it’s me again. You have a degree in biology. You want to be an assistant manager in what? What managerial skills do you have? What skills do you have actually being in a managerial positions over other people?

Just because you worked hard in school and graduating was hard from Michigan doesn’t give you those skills. 50,000 other people graduate from Michigan and very few will tell you it’s a cake walk.
So let’s put you in perspective and please don’t take anything I say to personal. Your internet “persona” might not be who you really are.

Having a degree in Biology is not going to get you a job in social work. People get degrees for this type of work at school like Michigan. https://ssw.umich.edu/admissions/connect

A quick search led me to this https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2018-11-29/what-you-can-do-with-a-biology-degree

https://work.chron.com/combine-biology-business-degrees-career-19646.html

I was trained in a small local hospital for my residency years ago. It is more like a local community hospital. Getting jobs is all about relationships. You will be the girl that went away and got a degree to come back and help her local community. You don’t want to be the local girl that got her degree and now she is better then everyone else… Right? That’s what you sound like. Sorry but it is.

At small hospitals and ones that you volunteered at you must of come in contact with some people in administration. Find out who the person to talk to is. Not just HR but maybe the president or vice president of the hospital. Set up a meeting (yes, this is called making your own interview). Reintroduce yourself as that little girl that volunteered and now your this women coming back to help her local community. Tell them what your thinking but you have to have concrete goal in mind and see what they suggest. Tell them your goal is to work your way up to a managerial position.

Also you have skills as a laboratory /research tech. Maybe starting in the laboratory and working your way up to running it one day. The key to any of this is saving the hospital time and money. Maybe you actually learned skills at Michigan to show them how to run their department more efficiently? Now your a very valuable asset! Now you have something to offer them.

The other course could be a medical rep for a company that your interesting in. Many people do this and have degrees in all sorts of professions like sales, marketing, sciences. You have to be a people person. You “manage” your own territory. Pay is usually good starting with perks, benefits etc etc. You usually have to also sit at medical conferences talking to doctors, nurses, etc to sell your products.

Biologics is very big now. One such company is https://mimedx.com/

I use this product and others like it for tendon, muscle, bone healing. They are based out of Georgia. They like well educated self confident people. They pay well and their reps are good people.

Do you think your degree in biology makes sense here VS social work?

There are truly hundreds of companies in this sector and others and they raise up there people if their producing. Do searches and find something your interested in and go for it. Many might have educational expenses for going back to school.

As stated, your going to be a Michigan graduate… You got this!