With your qualifications there is hope of getting a job as a research assistant/technician. In my experience most molecular/cellular techniques are easy to pick up and so it shouldn't be too much of an issue. After my undergrad degree and while deciding whether or not to do a PhD i was applying for some research assistant/lab technician jobs and due to the nature of my undergrad degree I had very little practical lab experience. For the positions I was applying for it wasn't much of an issue as I would get on the job training; I knew the theory and the basics so that was fine for most potential employers. Saying that while I was looking at jobs I found that most of the jobs I really liked the sound of required a PhD which was one of the things which swayed me over to doing a PhD. So here I am now doing a PhD, the stipend is more or less comparable to the money I would get as a lab tech or research assistant, and a PhD in theory should help my career/salary progression.

Just out of interest if you want to learn more techniques etc. have you considered doing a PhD?

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I don't think there is a specific postgrad student account and with some banks they refuse to acknowledge Phd students as students. Although I know that HSBC and Barclays recognise PhD students as students so you are eligible for what they offer there. I have an account with Barclays and always found them to be Ok. I'm not sure how ethical they are, but I have been with them since I was a kid so it helps to have a bit of bank loyalty when it comes to stretching the overdraft! I did see that the Royal Bank of Scotland offered a fairly attractive student account and they recognised Phd students too so they might be worth checking out. I find this site really useful for comparing banks/loans/credit cards etc http://www.fool.co.uk/ so take a look there 8-)

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It could be that your computer is running adware or spyware which isnt always picked up by virus checkers.

If you want to know what programs are using the most of your computer's power then get the task manager up and click the processes tab.. then there is a column headed 'CPU' click that and it will sort the programs into the order of power usage (might need to click twice to get it to do decending order). Then you can see which programs are eating up your CPU. I have an acer and they have some background 'management' programs which I ended up disabling because it was using between 60-80% of the CPU power which was an arse. If there is a program runnign that you don't recognise then got to this web site http://www.file.net/process/index.html and type it in there or just put 'what is (filename.exe)?' in google and it will tell you what it is

Or it could be that you don't have enough RAM to support the programs you are running, you can check that in task manager too by clicking on the performance tab and looking at the page file usage if that is heading towards 100% then you prob need some more RAM. What are your computers specs?