The world is my oyster-can you offer me your experiences?

LegacyUser

So Im a recent college graduate, of a natural/life science course. I managed to get a decent enough grade and a job in the industry, its not a great job and but itll do for now, it would probably take me a year or 2 to get promoted to actully doing what my degree has trained me to do (despite others from my class having already gotten a position for what we were trained in-lets just say I'm an "aide" to what I was trained in)

I'm happy where I am at tho for the moment, its grand, I dont love it but I dont hate it (yet ). Great for those other peope in my class that they went out there and got themselves great jobs! However this has opened my eyes a little bit to as that for the first time, I am out of college and I really can go any which direction. I am in a large company in a large city where those sort of higher up jobs are harder to get and generally require "on the line experience" for a year or 2 before you get promoted, the people who got the jobs we were actually trained didnt stay in our college town but actually went further afield to remote areas/abroad, Im actually incredibly lucky to have gotten the job I have-I know many others from my class who chose not to move out of our busy college town and to try to work in the industry and so far as I am aware I am the only one of us who has actually managed to get a job within the lab in industry-the others are on the manufacturing lines in factories. So I am aware whilst I may not fully be in the job I was trained to do I am in a better place than a lot of people for which I am grateful.

However looking at the different paths weve taken as a class Ive come to realise the world is my oyster and I can do whatever I want (within reason), if I want one of those higher up positions I could probably stick it out in my current company for a year or 2, or start applying to some of those jobs a bit further afield.

Buuuuut, tbh IDK what I want to do wih my life. IDK if I want to keep down the career path I am going, will I eventually reach a ceiling? That my BSc. will only allow me to progress so far? I have friends doing Masters and PhDs, and IDK if thats a better option for me careerwise, what benefits do these extra degrees have? I always thought I'd do a masters or phds anyways, I never thought I'd stop at my bachelors so Im at a crossroads...what to do. What are the benefits of these higher degrees?

And then some other ideas have taken my fancy-conversion courses, patent law etc. In fairness I could apply for an internship with a patent law company and becone a patent attorney but I think Id hate it and the only thing luring me is the awesome pay packet they seem to get :P

And then I thought conversion courses? Speech and language therapy used to appeal to me, until I got a talk in college from a SLT and tbh its not what I thought it was. Something thats always been in the back of my mind is medicine but tbh the stress of college the 1st time around nearly killed me, and its so long and expensive to go the grad route, and I feel like it would never live up to the awesomeness I imagine it to be, also from secondary school I recall based on those who applied for it (and subseque ntlly studied med) attracted an awful lot of cdouchery, much higher than other courses, just a lot of people who were going into it for the tite and tbh I dont want to be surrounded by snobs all day :P

And then I thought about vetrinary, but whilst I love animals, I wouldnt know the slightest thing about going up to McGarrys field at 4 am in the morning and halping some cow give birth or helping artificially inseminate some other one.

So Boardsies any life advice youre willing to offer, IDK what to do with myself and hearing the experiences of others might help unfog my mind a bit

So TLDR: The word is my oyster, I have too many options and dont know what to do-go into another career, keep the way Im going, go onto further study? Theres no one at all that can really offer me advice, thats done all this before, I know that the only person who will know whats right for me is me, but maybe other peope can give me their insights and life advice from their personal experiences

shesty

Time.
Give yourself time.
We are crap at time in today's world.Everything has to be instant, rushed, right now.Unfortunately the big stuff in life does not work that way. A few years of experience will inform those big decisions for you better than anything else, help you sort your priorities and decide what way you might like to go, what matters to you.And then of course, other stuff crops up like relationships, mortgages, travelling and the like.So settle down and enjoy yourself for a few years, and chalk it all up to experience.
Sorry it's not more exciting advice than that!!!