Biology Major?

Question

I have recently finished up my BA degree in Biology hoping to go to graduate school fro pediatric nursing I no longer want to do that. What other things can I do with this degree??

Answer 1

You're going to have trouble.

You might want to go to a community college or even back to school and get SPECIALIZED training for something.

Biology is great, but unless you have experience it's going to limit you.

The only thing in my area is to work in research at the KU med center.

Answer 2

I guess it doesn't sound like you want to do the research track either. I'm not sure how much you would like to continue into biology, but having writing credentials would pivot you towards do biological technical writing.

That's a position that's always in demand and always pays very well everywhere there's a good laboratory group (academic and/or corporate (pharm or biosciences).

You would have to have a knack for grammar and writing, and the tenacity of looking through technical documents over and over. Sounds bad, but you're not dealing with the minutae and politics of research biology.

In turn, that could lead to a biological management job because you have an understanding of biology, writing, and how to organize it.

Remember science isn't science if you say you can do it, it's only science when you write it down, publish it, and someone else can do it.

The biggest farce is that researchers can edit their own papers. Aside from the international grouping (large amounts of Europeans and Asian within the groups), researchers do only research well, not explaining it.

Answer 3

You could go to graduate school, medical school, law school. You could work for your local municipality, the federal or state government, you could be a teacher. You can do just about anything really. I know a woman who has a biology degree and works at KPMG and also know a gentleman with a biology degree that works at a bank and is a senior officer, although both of my friends have MBAs.

Answer 4

You can try teaching, research, psychology, lab work, medical careers, anything you want really.