Pretty much what you said. I majored in Biology and took most of the CS track at my school, with the intention of going into bioinformatics. I gave up on that p

Pretty much what you said. I majored in Biology and took most of the CS track at my school, with the intention of going into bioinformatics. I gave up on that plan, because the money was terrible. To make a reasonable amount of money in bioinformatics you need to have a PhD and be the person in charge of the grant. At that point, you'll still probably be making less money than anybody who is doing CRUD applications for any medium sized organization. Huge shame, because I love biology. I'd love to work on these projects, but I'm not going to get a PhD just so I can make what I'm making now.