Lost interest in my college major and I’m about to graduate; what are my options?

I am a 21 year old female, graduating with my bachelors in cell & molecular biology and a chemistry minor next may. I currently have a 3.8 GPA if that’s relevant. I was between bio and engineering when I applied to college, but I chose this major as I thought I was pre med / pre PA; I realized I didn’t have a passion for either after my sophomore year but stuck with my major as I found my classes very interesting to learn about and felt a significant amount of academic validation.

I’ve done clinical rotations and realized working directly with patients or sick people is not for me. I’ve talked to many of my professors, seen their labs, and met with a couple of the ones whose research I found quite interesting for a pretty in depth description of what I could be doing for undergraduate research as well as for a masters and decided I wouldn’t be interested in research at all.

Anyway. This is one of my major sources of anxiety; I’m 7 months out from graduating with a degree that at this point I only enjoy because I find learning new things interesting, especially when it pertains to life and how it functions, but past that I have no interest in a job pertaining to anything I’m directly learning or in getting my masters. I’ve always excelled in math but haven’t had to do much in the past three years or anything past Calc 1.

I love learning, I love feeling the academic validation, but I’m beginning to get burnt out and don’t want to be a slave to school or work. What are my career options? Do I pick up a skill on my own such as coding? Do I go back to school for my second bachelors in the fall?

edit- I’d be interested in engineering or even finance or data science, something that is heavily numbers and math based. I also have always thought forensics was an interesting field, but these all seem so vastly different I don’t know what to pursue or where to begin. Salary and job security are both heavy factors.



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