If you’re in maine I’d recommend, with your background in bio, trying to work in a lab setting (jackson lab is what I’m familiar with) you can work your way up there pretty quickly if you try to some sort of research project management position after being a research assistant. It’ll probably start around 22 an hour (but you could probably qualify for higher if you sell some experience in college as wet lab experience, but after a few years youd be able to translate into a 65-70k/year job in project management, then that is transferable to a lot of different places for much more money once you have that experience.
Good luck out there, wish we payed teachers a higher salary.
westofwally t1_irpi6wp wrote
Reply to Going from HS Teaching to working a B.I.W.? by Character_Stable_487
If you’re in maine I’d recommend, with your background in bio, trying to work in a lab setting (jackson lab is what I’m familiar with) you can work your way up there pretty quickly if you try to some sort of research project management position after being a research assistant. It’ll probably start around 22 an hour (but you could probably qualify for higher if you sell some experience in college as wet lab experience, but after a few years youd be able to translate into a 65-70k/year job in project management, then that is transferable to a lot of different places for much more money once you have that experience.
Good luck out there, wish we payed teachers a higher salary.