I was making $170k in biotech, doing operations. This job was not enjoyable and hard to quantify/describe. Basically, just putting out fires all day. I got laid off and biotech sucks right now. I'm prepared to retrain, but I want to make a similar salary. Unfortunately tech seems to have downturned as well - so I'm not sure what to do. I had some contacts at some SaaS companies that peripherally served life sciences, but this seems to have fizzed out as well. Also, did some sample work for equities analysis in life science, no response.
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The only way I know of sustaining your salary expectations is to demonstrate your ability to immediately deliver value at say 5+ times your recent salary. As they say you either make them money or save them money.
You mean like this one? https://www.simplyhired.com/job/fRVLWuMczwz2jxh7yVv35FuovuVI...
With your background, similar ones might work out well for you.
Is there any way you can contract to other biotechs to put out their fires? Can you start a business as a supplier of contractors or other services and products to the biotech industry? Are there any other inefficiencies in the biotech industry that you can exploit by setting up a company?
JavaScript was painful to abandon as a career. I loved the expressiveness of the language and the creativity it allowed. The jobs though were just putting text on screen and your peers were exceedingly young, insecure, and highly untrained. It’s like having a live for automobiles but becoming an auto-mechanic means your peers likely lack education, have low income potential, and drink more.
It is time for expectation management. If you want to start over in a different field you are not going to make what you making. You need to gain some experience in your new field to qualify a return to a high salary unless you can leverage your prior experience directly with credentials to laterally slide into a new field.
you want to work with your hands for a good wage ? or you want to work in some office ? we need more details :)