Natural sciences degree

[ProfessorLayton1]

What are your career options after this degree?
Apart from research that is...
Why is it so competitive to get in to this degree?

I don't feel I was rude, just forthright. I found your post patronising tbh.

Lucy Kellaway columns were v good. "FT's chief bullshit correspondent" - she called herself. I think she's currently retraining as a maths teacher.

OP, your BIL works in IT in the city but you can't figure out what he does all day? really? you can't be thinking that hard.

He does change jobs and indeed explain things which I can only follow upto certain extent.
what I do as a specialist hospital consultant is complicated and am sure that my brother can't follow every complex details even if I explained.

Ouch. If I'd known you owned multiple consultant-employing companies and had been trying to explain consultancy to you, then I completely agree that would have been hugely patronising. But I was trying to explain consultancy to the OP, who is not involved in the field, because lots of people don't know that it can involve technical work, and is therefore a good STEM destination, and I thought that might be helpful. I apologise for the way I worded my original post. I should have worded it to expand on what you wrote rather than contradict it.

I'd go for medicine given the choice.
I have a chemistry degree from an RG uni and found its not been that easy to get work from it.
I eventually retrained into nursing (couldn't afford graduate medicine).