<p>I'm interested in neuroscience and would like to know if it is a good career to Go into such as work environment, salary, competition, demand, and growth within the field?</p>
<p>This is a very very broad question, because it really depends on what degree you get in neuroscience and where you work. There’s the traditional route: getting a PhD and becoming a professor of neuroscience or a related field, conducting research and teaching a few classes in the area. You’d be working at a university and would have considerable freedom in your research as well as flexibility in your schedule, but you’d easily work 60-80 hour weeks especially while earning tenure. It takes 5-7 years to get a PhD, plus about 2-5 years of post-doctoral work before you can apply for tenure-track jobs, and they are difficult to get. Starting salaries can be anywhere from $60-80K depending on the area of the country. Once you get tenure, you have a job for life, and full professors can easily make six figures.</p>
<p>But neuroscientists work in other areas - for government agencies, for military research firms, for industry. The work environments are all different. Then there’s what happens if you stop at a BS or an MS in neuroscience. With a BS, you probably can’t go much further than being a research tech in a lab for relatively low pay, but with an MS you could be a low-tier research associate and make decent pay at a university medical center. There are probably some other jobs in industry you could get too.</p>