Major in Biology — then what

[Anonymous]

DD wants to major in biology, maybe get PhD.

Zero interest in medicine.

Other than working at volatile pharma or going into academia what other career paths exist?

[Anonymous]

I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.

How do you find leads?

[Anonymous]

Nothing?

[Anonymous]

I went to law a school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.

How do you find leads?

Doesn't matter. This is the first job chat GPT eliminated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.

How do you find leads?

Upwork, referrals, cold outreach.

That being said, 75% of what I do is business - customer service, finding customers, sales, etc. I hated it at first (social anxiety), but now I enjoy it. They're good skills to have no matter what industry you're in.

PP is wrong about ChatGPT. ChatGPT can write a blog post about the benefits of CBD gummies or whatever, but I write for emerging biotech industries where the science is closely guarded and ChatGPT doesn't know how it works. Most of what I do is interviewing scientists who know things nobody else does, then writing it in terms the general public can understand.

[Anonymous]

My best friend did this - when she graduated she worked in labs. At first it was really cool - using her degree! Science, her first love! But the pay never really got to a livable wage and she had to bartend on the side to make ends meet.

When she had kids she went back to school to get a nursing degree and she's been a nurse for the last 6 years or so - much better pay, more options for careers, and still science-adjacent.

[Anonymous]

Public health

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.

How do you find leads?

Upwork, referrals, cold outreach.

That being said, 75% of what I do is business - customer service, finding customers, sales, etc. I hated it at first (social anxiety), but now I enjoy it. They're good skills to have no matter what industry you're in.

PP is wrong about ChatGPT. ChatGPT can write a blog post about the benefits of CBD gummies or whatever, but I write for emerging biotech industries where the science is closely guarded and ChatGPT doesn't know how it works. Most of what I do is interviewing scientists who know things nobody else does, then writing it in terms the general public can understand.

Right so writing the articles takes 2 hours, but the rest of the job is 6 hours of business development per job?

[Anonymous]

I was biology major for a year with intention to go to med school. Changed it to political science. Although I’m happy I changed when I did, I wish I had pursued nursing instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.

How do you find leads?

Upwork, referrals, cold outreach.

That being said, 75% of what I do is business - customer service, finding customers, sales, etc. I hated it at first (social anxiety), but now I enjoy it. They're good skills to have no matter what industry you're in.

PP is wrong about ChatGPT. ChatGPT can write a blog post about the benefits of CBD gummies or whatever, but I write for emerging biotech industries where the science is closely guarded and ChatGPT doesn't know how it works. Most of what I do is interviewing scientists who know things nobody else does, then writing it in terms the general public can understand.

Right so writing the articles takes 2 hours, but the rest of the job is 6 hours of business development per job?

About that. If I write two $2000 per week, that's about 8-10 hours of work depending on how long they are.

The rest is networking, outreach, sales calls, communicating with current clients (they often LOVE meetings and we have to meet a couple times a month), invoicing, admin stuff, making edits on past articles, etc. That can take 15-30 hours depending on the week. I've been at it long enough I don't usually need to do a ton of sales calls or outreach, so I've been devoting those hours to writing my own science articles online for fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I became a ghostwriter for biotech, green tech, and med tech companies. I get paid $1000-$2000 for articles that take me 3-4 hours to write.

How do you find leads?

Upwork, referrals, cold outreach.

That being said, 75% of what I do is business - customer service, finding customers, sales, etc. I hated it at first (social anxiety), but now I enjoy it. They're good skills to have no matter what industry you're in.

PP is wrong about ChatGPT. ChatGPT can write a blog post about the benefits of CBD gummies or whatever, but I write for emerging biotech industries where the science is closely guarded and ChatGPT doesn't know how it works. Most of what I do is interviewing scientists who know things nobody else does, then writing it in terms the general public can understand.

Right so writing the articles takes 2 hours, but the rest of the job is 6 hours of business development per job?

About that. If I write two $2000 per week, that's about 8-10 hours of work depending on how long they are.

The rest is networking, outreach, sales calls, communicating with current clients (they often LOVE meetings and we have to meet a couple times a month), invoicing, admin stuff, making edits on past articles, etc. That can take 15-30 hours depending on the week. I've been at it long enough I don't usually need to do a ton of sales calls or outreach, so I've been devoting those hours to writing my own science articles online for fun.

Forgot to add - the flexibility is REALLY nice now that I have kids. If someone is sick, I can still work. I can often do meetings on the phone and take a walk. Sometimes I'll hire a VA to help with outreach. Some clients will fly me out to check out their facility and interview scientists.

[Anonymous]

There's a lot of industry beyond pharma. Every company that makes research instruments and reagents and equipment will need people with at least a tangential scientific background. Sales, marketing, R&D, application specialists, product managers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD wants to major in biology, maybe get PhD.

Zero interest in medicine.

Other than working at volatile pharma or going into academia what other career paths exist?

Prepare her for a life of low pay and zero job security.