EternalMetal
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Bringing this reply from the Albums thread:
I have my bachelors and stayed working at the lab that I did my undergrad research work in for a little over 2 years. I probably would have stayed with them, but the lab got relocated and they couldn't take with them any employees not working on degrees. My job position was a lab assistant related to helping one of the PhD students design DNA constructs of various types that they could use in their research. My boss offered me a permanent spot at the lab to work on a masters or PhD, but I turned them down because at the time I wanted to go to med school (in hindsight a masters would have been nice). Family issues got the better of me, so for the past 5 years ive divided my time with volunteering for the rescue squad (med schools want applicants that have experience with patient contact) and helping out with a struggling family business (no longer struggling thanks in large part to me).
After seeing the medical field for what it is, I began to realize that I didn't really like it all that much. Not the medical side, but dealing with patients and such. It took me a few years to realize that even if I did get into med school, there was no fucking way that I could realistically afford it. Now im getting a job as a medical technologist in the serology department. Im not really sure what my end-goal is, but at the moment I just need to get my foot back in the door, and ill probably stay at this job for a few years.
I was just wondering specifically about you and your general path/how it's working out. I'm already pretty set on going the pharma route and my PI has a bunch of connections that should make it viable, but if it gets tiring after a while I plan on going into teaching after. I'll abandon the field entirely before I ever attend med school. I do kinetics/biochemistry and structural biology stuff mostly.
I have my bachelors and stayed working at the lab that I did my undergrad research work in for a little over 2 years. I probably would have stayed with them, but the lab got relocated and they couldn't take with them any employees not working on degrees. My job position was a lab assistant related to helping one of the PhD students design DNA constructs of various types that they could use in their research. My boss offered me a permanent spot at the lab to work on a masters or PhD, but I turned them down because at the time I wanted to go to med school (in hindsight a masters would have been nice). Family issues got the better of me, so for the past 5 years ive divided my time with volunteering for the rescue squad (med schools want applicants that have experience with patient contact) and helping out with a struggling family business (no longer struggling thanks in large part to me).
After seeing the medical field for what it is, I began to realize that I didn't really like it all that much. Not the medical side, but dealing with patients and such. It took me a few years to realize that even if I did get into med school, there was no fucking way that I could realistically afford it. Now im getting a job as a medical technologist in the serology department. Im not really sure what my end-goal is, but at the moment I just need to get my foot back in the door, and ill probably stay at this job for a few years.