You would be surprised at the variety of careers available to a life scientist. As a scientist you are a practical person and a logical thinker and should have developed good communication skills. Your daily routine consists of running and managing projects or part of projects. Computer literacy and internet skills are taken for granted in the lab these days, but there many employers who look for individuals who have your level of information technology competence which you probably take for granted. Such attributes are keenly sought by management consultancy firms for example, especially if you have a postgraduate degree. Government agencies are always looking for bright individuals to become bureaurocrats, or reapply their present lab skill set to a new field. The growing government interest in alternative energy is just one such example. In hard economic times, you may need to “think outside the box” to use a clichéd phrase and see how the skills that you possess which you may consider peripheral in your present career can be reapplied in other fields as your prime strengths.

I like your optimism. I wished I could be so too. I just feel that if there is a crisis, there will be a lot of people filling up a lot of positions, and in most of them, we would be either under- or over-qualified. But yes, with some imagination, we can get something.

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