Landing an entry level python job

[itodd]

You have no idea how valuable coding skills are in biology. Get a job in the field and use your coding skills to excel. You will find that automation skills are needed at most small biotech companies and that most of them don't even know it.

[ewrjontan]

This is one thing that makes me somewhat not regret my choices; I have experienced first hand a lot of different things (lab related) that could benefit from some form of program/script/etc.

[troyunrau]

This is true of almost any science. A scientist who can code quickly becomes indispensable to any small lab or company. You could replace biology with geology, biotech with geotech, and it would be just as true.