The first thing that comes to peoples minds when they think of this is a biomedical engineer, but I am not really interested in STEM or a least something that is not as hands on or having to do with creating things.I also want a job that involves interacting with other or working with others (especially children, but other age groups are fine). Others have also said the medical field, but I am not interested in diagnosing patients or prescribing medication. If you think of any careers that follow this please let me know you would be a huge help. I have been searching for a job like this, but haven’t been able to find anything. Btw I am a senior and I know I still have three years to decide but I just want to have a general idea and so I don’t get stressed out later on. Thank you!
Both Math and Biology are STEM. The acronym stands for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics so only 25% of the acronym is Engineering. If you’re interested in Bio and Math you’re interested in aspects of STEM, its a really wide field.
Anyway… to answer your question: I don’t know all the jobs out there but just to throw out a list: teaching, academia, actuarial science. I can’t think of anything that explicitly combines the two but I’m sure its out there.
Biostatistics uses both applied math and bio. Don’t really know what it is used for though.
Ya it does not have to include both math and biology one or the other is fine
There are many potential fields that involve at least one of those. If working with kids is important to you, the best option would be teaching. If you’re hoping to combine both biology and math, look into biostatistics/bioinformatics. This might include working for the government on public health analysis projects, protein-modelling, or genomics. On the more biology side, you can look into academia or the biotech industry. If you want to do more work on the business side, you can look at more management/biotech consulting types of work. On the math side, options include financial analytics, actuarial science, and more generally applying statistical/data science methods to a range of fields (from machine-learning in self-driving cars to analyzing the profitability of different business policies).
It sounds like education, maybe?
Look into public health. It’s a pretty broad field. Epidemiology and biostatistics (especially) are more science- and math-oriented, but there are opportunities for health education and fieldwork (e.g. interviewing people to get data on an outbreak) that are more people-oriented. It’s different from clinical medicine, so you wouldn’t be treating patients directly; rather, you would be trying to improve health at a population level through education, research, and outreach.
“Others have also said the medical field, but I am not interested in diagnosing patients or prescribing medication”
“I also want a job that involves interacting with other or working with others”
There are a lot of options in the medical field. As far as I know most of them involve dealing with patients, they don’t all involve diagnosing patients. There are almost too many different careers in this area to list, and I certainly don’t know all of them. Some biology majors of course end up in some form of veterinary or animal sciences.
Regarding “careers in math”, there are again many options. Math is a basis for a LOT of work that goes on in the world. I was a math major in university, and some of the things that I have run into include econometrics (applying math to quantitative study of economic problems); operations research (using mathematical solutions techniques to solve a wide range of problems in business, engineering, transportation, and other fields); and statistics (looking at data and trying to decide what useful conclusions can be reached with what degree of confidence). Math is useful in some parts of Internet Security (encryption algorithms use relatively complex math), and in mechanical and structural engineering (how do you know that a building is going to stay up in a strong wind or a bridge will stay up when trucks drive across it?), and in many other forms of engineering (ie, building things), and many other fields.
STEM of course stands for “science, technology, engineering, and math”. There are a HUGE number of jobs that fall into this category. Many (but not all) of them are relatively well paid. As a former math major, there are a huge number of jobs that are included in “STEM” that I would never want to do, but there are several that I would find very interesting. You also will probably find that most STEM jobs are not for you, but that there are several that are included under “math” or “biology” that involve building things or working with people and that you want to do.
The good news is that as a high school “incoming senior” you have lots of time to figure this out. The first couple of years of university largely involve studying introductory classes in a number of different fields that you find interesting. Then over time you will tend to focus in on one or two fields to study in more detail. Actually finding a career is very often something that sort of evolves over time. From graduating high school to settling in on a final career was something that took me around about 10 or 15 years, but I ended up being quite successful in the career that I eventually landed on. It can take less than this or longer than this for different people.
Plenty of time to decide. One thing my D did was to shadow people in different things she was interested in while she was in college.
You may consider some of the allied medical profession and focus on working with children – speech therapy, OT, PT, physicians assistant etc. Teaching might be another good option. (For full disclosure my D started a Masters in speech pathology program this year and is loving it).