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In my country you can't change majors once you choose them, and if I drop out I wont be allowed to take college anywhere else cause of age limit.
I am a sophomore in biotech engineering. But I feel like I suck a lot in bio and chem. I have better aptitude in math and programming but they don't teach it in my major.
I try to study these topics on my own but I find it difficult to make time with all the lab work and coursework. I also take more than usual time to understand the concepts of my course.
Sometimes I feel demotivated and lose interest in all this. Also by the fact that I'd get paid less in the end of course, compared to my software and electronics major friends, even if I put more effort than them. Everything feels worthless. Put more effort, get paid less, not able to switch to anything else, not able to exciting research work unless I spend 10 more years and then too its not sure. Where is the redeeming quality in the choice I made? I don't even like the subjects anymore.
How can I stop feeling demotivated all the time and play the cards I dealt with?
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A couple of things:
Quit trying to learn another major and focus on yours. You need to go to tutoring, watch videos, look up resources to better understand your own major and pass. It will be easier if you give it your full attention.
Quit. Start trying to become self-taught and take certifications and courses online in programming. (From my understanding, you can get a job in programming this way, but I would guess it's harder and lower positions then someone who took a degree for it. Fact check this though).
Go to Uni in another country. I would think most countries don't have age restrictions. Then you can get a good education in your desired field and have a better chance maybe finding a job in it?
Last option. Keep doing what you're doing and hope that a degree in anything will be enough to get a foot in the door if you still take online courses and certifications in programming online. But you may burn yourself out and not be completely good at either.
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I would think that biotech engineering would pay better then most other bio fields outside of medical?
I would recommend speaking with your professer about it, if this is something you don't wanna learn, you shouldn't have to. I don't know where you're from, but as far as i'm aware, you can just drop out and try to become self taught. I believe my dad was self taught and he runs a decently successful company now.
I told my professor and she became really mad about it and was blaming it on me. She became really critical of my work from then onwards lol.
I am from India, it's really really hard to be self taught without a degree to earn good money, because of the large population. Even with degrees ppl are earning peanuts.
Well First off, that's a very shitty professer, if you're not learning something she/he/they/that/it/Walmart-bag is teaching, while not entirely her fault, it is mainly. Anyway, you could try to get your degree in biotech and attempt to do the things you're good at as a freelance sidegig and when you believe your resumé in that area is good enough, you can go get a job in that field.
Im doing the same, and it's tough, esp with lab hours taking a lot of my time, yk cause I suck at lab work cause I don't understand how some procedures work, and then I mess up lol and I have to do extra time to catch up to my peers. If I don't, Ill get a low grade.
Great. Have you considered asking a classmate for help? I myself am quite passionate about biology and when i try to explain something to my partner in biology they usually understand it way better after, so maybe you could seek out a passionate student and ask them to tutor you, maybe that will even help you grow more passionate about the subject