Anyone got a Life Science job for me?

What do you intend to do? I graduated with similar background and grunt lab work was all I could find. I ended up in pharm sales.

All lab work is grunt lab work.

My advice to the OP is to look for jobs at universities, because they're always hiring and it's a good place to start, especially now that there might be more grant money floating about. If you want to do research for life, you can always try to apply for a government job, but even I tired of that and gave it up to go back into industry.

If he wants to work for the government then he should probably stop talking about how much he loves weed on a public forum.

Just a quick suggestion to the OP: it might be advisable not to start threads on how much you love pot and can't give it up on the same day you start a thread asking for a job. Just a thought.

That's a broad field. What are you interested in? What skills do you have? Besides monster bong rips I mean.

Go to grad school. A BS with no experience won't get you far.

Heh, this either means nothing, or it can mean something, but it depends ultimately on what you want to do.

If you do want to go into the USAF or grad school, then take your GREs/MCAT and apply, taking a lab job in the meantime for a little money and more experience. You'll probably have better luck going with a contract position that's good for 6 months to a year, because most PIs prefer employees that will be there for at least 2 years, which likely won't be the case if you're applying to schools.

Also, be sure you know what you're in for over the long haul. Getting a PhD in science can take up to 6 years depending on what your project is and who your adviser is -- pick an easy project, and you'll get your PhD sooner. Back in the day, when it was tedious and time consuming, it seemed like people were getting PhDs just by sequencing genes, but now, that's not the case. Then once you get the PhD, you have to spend 2-5 years as a post-doc, making 35-50k, to get more experience and publications. After that, you can likely get a staff scientist job at a company or take an associate prof position and start writing grants and doing research/teaching.

Tossing in the MD changes things since the PhD/research part tends to be secondary to the MD. A majority of the new MD/PhDs I have worked with seem to have the research knowledge of a masters student. The older ones, mostly through years of research experience, definitely know more.