>>13105796>Bio bros, it’s been 5 months, I need a fucking job. Is it always this difficult?Yes. I'd go for lab tech positions in academia. They're pretty good for people just out of undergrad and getting careers started. You'll have a decent amount of autonomy, pick-up some good skills, make connections, and figure out what you want to do next. I finished undergrad ten years ago now, then took three gap years. There were a few of us who were techs together, who I've kept up with, and people have moved on to interesting paths: grad school, medical school, bench research in industry, sales, off the top of my head.
>>13105844>I specialized in Animal (wildlife) genetics thinking the genetics work would get me a job. However everyone Genetics job I look at wants a fucking PhD and all the wildlife jobs seem to be super competitiveCan't speak to this field, it has been years since I came across anyone in this area of biology. Had a friend from undergrad interested, but we've lost contact. But, needing a PhD doesn't surprise me. I went into biomedical research, and in biotech/pharma you have to have a PhD or you'll hit a ceiling pretty fast. Did a PhD in an academic drug discovery lab, now onto postdoc in industry hub with well-connected PI. A PhD in genetics (or tangential sub-discipline) would be pretty employable in biotech/pharma, take that for what it's worth.
