Ok so I see what you are saying about BMS, I get the impression it's not quite the same thing as a clinical scientist. I wanted to do this STP scheme as it sounds like more interesting work with the clinical interpretation, investigation, patient contact, R&D and quality assurance etc. I want to use my brain which feels as though it's shrivelled to nothing over last 18 months! Felt like I was wasting my PhD. Biochem seems to have endless avenues, lots of depth although of course you never can tell until you actually get there and start doing a job.
Maybe doing clinical scientist training rather than BMS would appeal to you more. Sounds like you're after something quite challenging. What's your degree? I've done research for a while in the past and you can't get bored with that! Always a good option to maybe take a stipend for a PhD and mull over your options for a bit. You won't harm your future prospects and you do get paid
I thought doing research was great.
My job as a trainee vascular technologist/scientist demands lots of very physical work rather than mental. Drives me nuts repeating the same task day in day out, and then the pain i'm constantly in from seeing silly amounts of patients in a day, like rolling them off the conveyor. Not much variation, just lots of bending, stretching, straining, pressing, pushing, looking, holding, enduring and sweating followed by repeating! It's definitely more of a technician role than a scientist, not really for anyone who wants a bit of a mental challenge.
It's such a shame but I have been really disappointed with vascular. It wasn't what the job desciption suggested. Also just to add that the clinical life sciences are properly regulated (ACB, HPC, FRCPath etc) - some of the physiological sciences have no professional body at all - vascular for instance has only a voluntary register (SVT) with unrealistic targets (patient scan numbers) required for registration with them which is impossible in 18 months of specialism on STP programme (takes nearer to 4 years to acheive all the numbers). This is the first time they've tried to get trainees into vascular via this scheme and I don't think their portrayal of the job as requiring a science graduate entry scheme is very realistic. I think people will get very bored very quickly.
Having said all that, are you going to reapply for STP next year? You could take a BMS role in he meantime, still good experience. I am assuming you must be studying BMS?