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Best paid science based job?

In your opinion, what's the best possible career/uni course you could develope from studying all 3 sciences at A-Level. (Excluding Med/Dentistry/Vet Science)

By best I mean, most intresting, well paid and so forth. :tsr2:

pharmacy

Food Scientist for a large International Food Company/Manufacturing Industry???

Reply 3

JennLlama

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Well presumably investment banking in terms of actual pay... But most interesting is very subjective.
Jenn xx

Reply 4

Wrangler

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Mass amounts of cash can be made in investment banking, but you'd need more than just A-Levels to jump straight into trading.

If you're super-duper-duper-duper bright, you can work for GCHQ, who will happily pay you hundreds of thousands for doing some very tough brain-work.

:smile:

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JennLlama

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Wrangler

Mass amounts of cash can be made in investment banking, but you'd need more than just A-Levels to jump straight into trading.

If you're super-duper-duper-duper bright, you can work for GCHQ, who will happily pay you hundreds of thousands for doing some very tough brain-work.

:smile:

GCHQ's salaries don't look *that* good as far as I can make out, though they're definitely not low I will admit! Good point though - plenty of sciencey careers with them :smile:

And yeah, for IB you'd need a degree, but it sounded like the OP was intending on doing one anyway.
Jenn xx

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Wrangler

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JennLlama

GCHQ's salaries don't look *that* good as far as I can make out, though they're definitely not low I will admit!

They wouldn't be the type of jobs that are advertised. I know GCHQ invite the top 3 people from the Cambridge Maths Tripos every year for an interview for a position in a "specialist team" - and we're talking well over £100,000 starting salaries. The only reason I know all this, because my ex-Director of Studies was one of those such people, and told a few of us about it.

:smile:

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Xxx Mini xxX

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Biomedical science for 3 years and then become a biomedical scientist. Not really! but thats what am doing. But am doing it because i generally enjoy biology and am intersted in it but i really wanted to do medicine. I think if you are really good at one particular science and have a great interest in it then you should carry on studyimg that at university, because if you are unsure of a career this will give you more time to think about possible careers while still studying your fav subject! How cool is that! lol!

IB isn't a science.

john171

In your opinion, what's the best possible career/uni course you could develope from studying all 3 sciences at A-Level. (Excluding Med/Dentistry/Vet Science)

By best I mean, most intresting, well paid and so forth. :tsr2:

Nuclear Physicist.

Reply 10

Shéamais

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ARMY, RAF, ROYAL NAVY, ROYAL MARINES (ALL OFFICER of course)

Don't get paid a bad wage, get a really interesting job, get to do some good for the world.

Army

john171

In your opinion, what's the best possible career/uni course you could develope from studying all 3 sciences at A-Level. (Excluding Med/Dentistry/Vet Science)

By best I mean, most intresting, well paid and so forth. :tsr2:

You mean then going on to do a degree? If you are looking to earn cash then science isn't for you.

Reply 13

john171

OP

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I've come to the same conclusion, god dam my A-Level choices :smile:

Reply 14

Shéamais

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no Ones Listening - Join The Armed Forces

Reply 15

Prof BMS

Biomed Science in the NHS IS very well piad now that the new salary structure is in place. It may pay just £19 or £20K at graduation, but within 2 years you are a specialist and can earn £35 - £40K per annum AND get support to study for a MSc. A well developed career structure is in place which results in salaries of up to £88K for the most advanced (consultant) practitioners and managers. Some labs are even offering supported places on degree courses, such as this one based at the Uni of Surrey. Check it out!
http://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk/intranet/Ashford---/Pathology-/index.htm

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john171

OP

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The armed forces? What part of the armed forces? RAF/Police/BA/RN ?

Reply 17

ChemistBoy

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Prof BMS

Biomed Science in the NHS IS very well piad now that the new salary structure is in place. It may pay just £19 or £20K at graduation, but within 2 years you are a specialist and can earn £35 - £40K per annum AND get support to study for a MSc. A well developed career structure is in place which results in salaries of up to £88K for the most advanced (consultant) practitioners and managers. Some labs are even offering supported places on degree courses, such as this one based at the Uni of Surrey. Check it out!
http://www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk/intranet/Ashford---/Pathology-/index.htm

The chances are you will have got frustrated and moved into the private sector well before any of that happens to you. I'm afraid that's all best case scenario - my mum's a BMS and she assures me that the real world isn't so great.

Reply 18

GerardT

Surely working for one of the big oil companies (BP, Exxon etc.) With an MSc they will happily give you 30k a year out of university, add to that the fact there is a shortage of good geophysicists and petrochemists (if that is even a word :p:

) nowadays - the result being they will give you bonuses and benefits through the nose for just working for them and not a rival.

As for interesting, getting placements pretty much anywhere in the world where there is oil (Alaska, Middle East, Austrailia, North Africa and so on) sounds pretty fun to me.

Reply 19

mishymashy

Heya, I've been accepted by all my chosen uni's in doing forsenic science, which i am facinated by this science and truly not a csi fan lol! Yet i have heard once you work your way up you can earn 60-70k per year, how true is this? And how well is forensic science paid?

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