There are several broad categories. There is no wrong choice, and you can more or less change your mind if you choose something you don't like, and the experience will probably only help you in moving to another direction.
If you want to continue with chemistry, you can broadly go into academics, industry, or government. Academics at this point for you generally means graduate school, after which you can make the academics/industry/government choice again. If you just want to hang around an academic lab, many biochemistry and biology type labs hire techinitians, during which you get paid pretty well but they do look for certain skills. Industry is open, since usually they'll teach you what they want you to do. You won't make as much money in industry with a BS vs. MS vs. PhD, but many companies will pay for you to earn a masters/doctorate if you work for them a certain number of years, and you'll be making a good amount of money meanwhile. Government means a government lab, like Los Alamos, Livermore, Berkeley, NIST, or things like the NIH. Many of the large government labs have programs that bring people out with a BS to do research for a couple of years. If you like what you're doing you can stay, otherwise you've made no real commitment. Like in industry, you won't make as much nor be able to do as much with just a BS, but you'll still be making good money, and if you decide to go back to graduate school the experience of actually working in a lab will only help you get into better graduate schools.
The other to consider is non-scientific careers. Many organizations need people who understand science. You can go get an MBA and become a very well paid consultant. You can go get a law degree. You can go into politics--lobbying, environmental groups, etc. You can go into science-writing: Scientific American, Discover, etc. all need good writers.
The nice thing about ANY of the options I mentioned above is that non of them are permanent. You can try all of them for a year or two and see if you like 'em. Current retirement age is 65, by the time you graduate social security will have fallen apart and retirement age will probably be 75. So you have more than half a century ahead of you. If you do something for a year or two and enjoy it but decide it's not for you, it's not time wasted.
Good luck!
2007-01-16 02:46:49
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answered by Some Body 4
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You can be a pharmacologist, a researcher in R&D, quality control
for various company (eg., soda companies), professor, toxicologist,
forensics specialist and a lot more. Provided that you pass the board exams.
2007-01-15 19:25:02
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answered by unean_amigo 3
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a million. attempt for a job - restricted openings & pay ! 2. Do B Ed , become a instructor - sturdy occupation, in case you want , & sensible income. 3. do masters - doctorate- ...... in each and each level study openings can come on your way, with sturdy pay.
2016-11-24 20:45:23
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answered by vannostrand 4
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