A question to those who work in any science field.

You might want to go to the website of the American Chemical Society and poke around their career pages -
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They will have at least some indication of how that job market is and how its future looks. I'm not in biochem, but from looking at the want ads in journals like Science, it is certainly the hot field in chemistry right now. You may want to seriously think about going past a batchelor's degree to get a little more clout in job-hunting. Grad school in chemistry will likele pay for itself - you will be in demand to teach undergrads - as long as you don't mind eating beans and store-brand macaroni and cheese for four years. Be prepared, though, to study harder than you now dream possible when you get to the actual biochemistry courses. And they'll make you take calculus and probably beyond, though you'll likely never use it.