You know, double majoring in Biology and English may be the best decision of my life

[WindRavenX]

As I am ending my college career and begin to look for jobs, I am finding that many biotech companies have a strong demand for employees who have backrounds in both a science and in english--which is working out to my advantage. On Monster.com, I am finding a SHIT TON of biotech companies that have tons of jobs for people like me--I am feeling quite confident that as I continue to search for jobs in SLC, Utah, that I will find a perfect job.

[ulysses]

1. ?

What happened to teaching?

[WindRavenX]

5. I'm getting a MA first

I'm running into huge fucking problems getting certified to teach. No one is telling me what I need to do and I'm freaking out-- I NEED a goddamn job x(

edit: why is it so hard for non education majors to teach?

[Reverend_Smitty]

21. They make getting a teaching certificate so damn difficult now...

I'm going back to get my masters in the fall for a program in Health EDUCATION but because I don't have an undergraduate degree in education I still can't get certified to teach. It's almost like they don't want people to become teachers anymore. I went to a school that graduates a high volume of education majors and even they will tell you that the education degree is a joke, yet I have to jump through a million hoops to get my certification.

[WindRavenX]

24. You said it all right here:

It's almost like they don't want people to become teachers anymore

Gee, I wonder why...

[EFerrari]

2. Completely agree. I did English and Physical Anthro

and the combination gave me so many more choices -- not strictly because of anthropology -- but because I had the English training AND the science training. Or, they thought I did.

lol

Good going!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. They have science in Utah?

:P

J/K. Good luck!

[idgiehkt]

4. yep, right next to the unicorns.

:rofl:

you silly man. :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Those fucking unicorns are everywhere!

:P

[WindRavenX]

7. ...with sacred underwear

:P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Bet they're caffeine-free unicorns, too.

:P

[WindRavenX]

9. that crap hot chocolate?

Fuckin' Mormons and their insatiable love of hot chocolate...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. Damn them!

:P

[idgiehkt]

10. is the sacred underwear thing a myth

or is it real? I keep hearing this talked about... :shrug:

[WindRavenX]

12. 100% real

I swear to god, I thought my SO was kidding me about this, but he showed me one of his parents' garments. Apparently it's worn to give the wearer protection, and there are lots of Mormon "folklores" about how the garments protected the wearer in like a fire or car crash.

See the wiki article on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment

[idgiehkt]

15. holy crap

:o

[WindRavenX]

16. LOL, I know right?

I was like "Kyle, you're bullshiting me. There's no way it's real..."

And I was proven wrong.

In a lot of ways, Mormons remind me of Muslims...

[LostinVA]

13. Get your MLIS and you can choose what job you want

With that science degree.

[WindRavenX]

14. forgive my ignorance in asking...

but what is the "MLIS"? I've never heard of it...

[LostinVA]

17. Master's in Library & Information Science

[WindRavenX]

18. oo sounds sexy

thanks for the headsup! :thumbsup:

[Nikia]

19. Sometimes I wish I double majored

My idea for the double major kept on changing though so that I did not even have a minor when my college started offering them my senior year.
I was a biology major. I know work in food processing. I don't recommend that as a career, but it might be better than biotech. I've never worked in biotech. I'm not sure what companies are out there.

[sir_captain]

20. Good for you

It makes you better educated than the vast majority of people as well, which is nothing to sneeze at. I was a history major in college before I went to med school and I don't regret it at all.

Good luck with the job hunt. :hi:

[XemaSab]

22. Fo shizzle

There are a lot of biologists who can't write for shit. :P

[WindRavenX]

23. truth

And it's one of the reasons of the science/religious gap--we can't communicate worth a fuck.