Why Pharm? The rate kinetics and that line of the work takes math, which you are weak in.

Ace is on track. Go PhD, which will be significant salary cut, but add business, which any monkey can do.

Sales is hack city, you might as well be a DO. If you have the sales personality, get the MBA and make bank.

Skip the military, it just puts you behind unless you want to be a trauma doc.

 

How long would it take to get an mba?

 

64 credits

 

Worth considering I guess. I did read in a maxim that all you need is a bachelor's in biology and some experience to be a brewmaster. That could be fun

 

You could also consider the oil industry, or the enviromental end of it with
your biology background. Their begging for people.

 

I was a brewmaster, great job for alkies, worthless for a scientist.

 

Sounds like you are just not cut out to be a pharmacist.

 

i know 2 pharms. they graduated. they're both making decent money. both HATE their jobs. counting pills all day. listening to sick fools who know nothing, dealing w/ nurses and doctors who basically laugh at you.

2.88 is good enough to get you into optometry school (in butt effin middle of nowhere) if you do half decent in OATs. if you stay in suburban TX, it's easily a $100k/year vocation.

 

Not a fan of optometry; I'll end up hating my job with that one. I know Frito Lay here in plano, tx may be hiring for lab work. Basically sampling the main batches for QA, ensuring low metal concentrations in the grease, etc. With a master's they pay around $65K/yr, as I am told by one of their former employees. I'm looking into toxicology work as well, but I'm not sure what good paying jobs lie within there.

 

op...what was your plan when you started ur masters? looks like a case of ready fire aim.

anywayz... i graduated college with a 2.71... knew nobody was gonna hire me junior year of college. so that summer i enrolled myself in an accounting program at UC santa barbara... banged out 24 units of accounting...took more summer school to bolster my gpa (community college is incredibly easy and they offer online classes which are a joke) averaging in those grades improved my chances of getting a job big time. at interviews, i would just leave my gpa off the resume and tell people my "accounting gpa" which was a full point higher.

also since you are doing ur masters, u need to befriend your profs and ask them wut options u have. they fountains of real world/industry specific knowledge, as well as technical knowledge. they can point u in the right direction.

u can always work for DNA or genentech. my friend that majored in bio now injects stuff in mice and swabs peitri dishes for lots of money at genentech.