I’d really like to study genetic engineering because I find it a cool skill. But at the same time, job positions for genetic engineers are few and far inbetween. So while I’d potentially be good at something few people can do (=high paying). If I studied something like law, I’d be much more flexible geographiclally in terms of finding employment. So I’m wondering whether to aspire to a more common career and take GE as a hobby that I’m studying, or if I should double down on GE and work in a café until I find a job in that. (I might decide I want to pivot away from GE once I learn it anyway.) What do you recomend?
Aren’t the machines for doing DNA duplication and other fundamental things for GE expensive as fuck? Like in the 6 figures of cost?
I don’t think there’s GE as a hobbie.
And btw, working in GE means that you are going to end working in Monsanto or other biotechnology firm trying to privatize life.
OPs alternative is law.
I’m not sure the ethics of their employment are of much concern.
Law was just an example. There’s a ton of other more commonplace careers I’d consider.
Oh, I didn’t mean doing GE as a hobby, I meant studying it at university (as a ‘hobby’) but then doing something else for a job because there are only a couple of locations in my country where I could geta job with it.