<p>i feel like i'm totally screwed if i am ever going to use my degree. I'm not going to graduate with above a 3.0. thankfully my life does not depend on my degree but it might for a year or so. SO will i even be able to get a job? i just need a job for 1 year to do what i want and that's it.</p>
<p>what’s your degree?</p>
<p>It’s mcb (10 char)</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about sciences. But if jobs are similar to how they are in finance, then apply everywhere, cold call everywhere, network, and just keep trying. Apply to 5,000 places if you have to.</p>
<p>A graduate told me that gpa doesn’t really matter and that people here just stress over nothing, but then again, she was more in law and entertainment fields.</p>
<p>many students are going onto graduate school—of course they are worried about GPA. if you have questions about your field, why not write to companies and find forums with professionals (people working) and ask questions there. i work in the entertainment industry and goa is meaningless. but in science, that might not be entirely true if students are getting hired out of college for example, or want to get a graduate degree themselves. if people are in school they should maintain a high gpa just because it makes life easier not harder. but gpa is meaningless in some professional fields.</p>
<p>OP, what are your plans after this 1 year, if I may ask? Also, if you want a “job” just to make money during that 1 year, your GPA won’t matter. Just apply for a few jobs on craiglist. They will pay $12-13 an hour. It’s better than nothing if you just want to mess around for a year.</p>
<p>A overall science GPA below a 3.0 is pretty bad though…but I’m sure you can get something. Network like crazy and really stress that UC Berkeley brand name. Also, did you have any work experience or internships during undergrad? Stress those and exaggerate them. You’d be surprised. Sometimes things like “teaching the lab intern what to do and making sure he does it without messing up” can be written as “Supervised, trained, and managed laboratory interns and worked together in a team setting to accomplish a project.”</p>
<p>MCB career survey:
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/MCB.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/MCB.stm</a></p>
<p>Other majors:
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm</a></p>
<p>Of the sciences, applied math and statistics appear to be the most successful at the bachelor’s degree level. MCB is the largest undergraduate major at Berkeley, but its graduates not going to professional school do not tend to do that well.</p>
<p>food for thought: if the sciences are just no fun for you, just toss it in dude and do something fun. photography, painting, whatever. but graduate. my sister chose art history at Cal, and went to Cairo for one year to study abroad. man, just have fun in school and ANY degree from Cal will allow you to compete for all kinds of jobs. </p>
<p>if you LOVE science, then Cal is a great place for it. but it sounds like you are not having any fun and that is a sign that something is going wrong. whatever you do in life, do something you absolutely love to do. something you look forward to when you wake up in the morning, trying to do something because you think it will make you money in my view always backfires and turns into quite the disaster. money is completely overrated. and you only live once. my sister also changed majors at Cal, so it should not be a problem. </p>
<p>good luck dude.</p>
<p>well my plans will sound pretty crazy so i’ll keep that on the low right now but basically, i am worried because my parents will definitely pay for my apartment and school and stuff if I go on to grad school or get a job in the city that i want to, but who knows if that will happen. </p>
<p>Ideally, i would like to get an apartment and focus on what i really want to do, and succeed in that. I know I have a better chance in being successful in the thing that i want to do but it’ll be hard for anyone to believe before it happens. They aren’t the type of parents that would just say no but the alternative either way would just be to live at home with them and do nothing lol so i think they’d rather me do something than nothing. But idk i’m scared : [ i’ve been so worried these last few days and now i checked my grades and that gives me all the more reason to pursue what i want to do lol</p>
<p>Oh but YEAH I could just get a job that pays 12-13, but would that be enough to pay for an apartment and support myself too? idk i’ve never had to like take care of everything financially and it would be kind of awesome to do that lol but idk if it would work. </p>
<p>and I have actually done some internships and volunteer work and small jobs so i guess I am set up in that sense. I always feel like i’m not doing enough but here’s what i’ve done:
- 2 internships (currently in one, may continue into the fall)
- I’ve been a notetaker for DSP, i have another part time job that requires me very few days out of the week but no one knows that when it’s on the resume, and i do some online stuff for a business.
- 2 steady volunteer things </p>
<p>and i will soon be getting a leadership position hopefully</p>
<p>i may be naive but anything other than studying for classes and getting good grades might be better put aside right now while you are in school. i mean volunteering is something you can do after you graduate. if you can translate extracurricular into good grades, okay. otherwise, i would drop any thing that is not helping you with your classes. just graduate from Cal in something. anything. and don’t drop out! after that you will have your entire life in front of you to do whatever you want.</p>
<p>Okay that looks fine. Like I said, if you have a post grad plan figured out and only need a year to make some money, you might be fine. I assume you’ve graduated already? If you have, start applying for jobs now. Make it your full time job to apply to jobs. Go online, submit your resume to tons of jobs. Don’t be afraid to submit it to a job just because you don’t think you qualify for it. A lot of jobs will say “At least 1 year experience” but if you have some internships, that could still qualify. And who knows, your work experience + UC Berkeley name can make you an outstanding candidate.</p>
<p>If you haven’t graduated yet, start going to campus career fairs and submit your resumes to recruiters there. It’s so much easier to get a job via career fairs, on campus interviews, and recruiting events in general. As long as you have some work experience that isn’t just working at a coffee shop or babysitting or being a tutor, you should be able to find some entry level position that pays 30k starting. You can also apply for lab jobs and apply for administrative assistant jobs in hospitals since you’re a science major. Then, about 6 months before you graduate, start applying for jobs online. It’s great to just get out there early. 6 months isn’t early some companies literally take FOREVER just to get back to you. There’s a good chance you won’t get hired by a lot of companies because you can’t work immediately, but that’s okay, you’re still getting experience of interviews and applying to jobs.</p>