you are right about the biology degree not being worth a crap. I think the reason college advisers aren't more realistic about the marketability of the degree is because of pride, the advisers themselves are also the biology professors and they're supposed to be cheerleaders for the degree. if i could go back, i would get an accounting degree and a minor in biology so that i could at least be working part time as an accountant making decent money while trying to get into AA school.
i have inquired all over my city about getting a better job, but every single employer says that by having a biology degree, my application will go into the pile with applicants marked "no degree." in other words, they don't recognize it. i could just kick myself for going through with getting a biology degree.
at this point, all i can really do is keep trying again and again to improve my app and get into an AA program. that's honestly the only long term goal i think of pursuing. because otherwise, what other goal do i have to look forward to, more minimum wage jobs with no upward mobility?
so basically, if i'm not pursuing aa school or some kind of graduate school, then i don't have much of a chance of becoming anything at all. i will literally have no other choice but to live with my parents for the rest of my life and live out my years trying to scrape by on minimum wage jobs.
now you see why it's a situation of either "AA school or bust," because if i don't get in there's literally no chance of becoming any sort of professional at all unless i get discovered to be a hollywood actor or something.
if i don't get in this time, it looks like i will need to enroll at a community college and go through a phlebotomy program or some other kind of sort health care related program that won't cost too much money.
actually, i think the perfect path for someone who knows they want to be an AA at the time they graduate highschool would be to go through a 2-year respiratory therapist program at a community college, then do an online AS to BS bridge program so they'll have the bachelor's degree to qualify for AA school. then they already have training and a little bit of work experience that looks GREAT to AA programs. should've done that.