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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 120963" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>After doing industrial water and waste treatment for over 20 years and getting throughly burned out of all the traveling (up to 1200 miles A WEEK on the road) and dealing with knucklehead engineers who thought they knew more microbiology and chemistry than I did even though I had been doing it for 20 years, before some were even out of middle school, I quit my job with GE and went back to school at 53. I spent two years getting a third degree, this time in Medical Laboratory Sciences. The state of Florida requires both licensure and certification by ASCP (American Society for Clinical Pathology) so I spent 2 months studying an 1100 page thick study guide with 2000 practice questions in it, for what was the most difficult and mind numbing exam I had ever taken in my life and passed it on the first try. Like everywhere else, "Hope and Change" has hit the medical profession hard too and hospitals were cutting back on hiring and looking for people with experience rather than ones starting out. After getting nudged out of three positions by people with experience, I finally secured a position in the Microbiology labs of a hospital about an hour's drive from here. Micro has always been my strongest area, and one where I already have a BS, so it worked out for the best. The position is second shift, 3:30 to 11:30pm, which works out great for me and the shift differential is fairly substantial when it comes to salary. So finally I am back in the "bug business"! Somewhere in there I will still try to find some time to do photography!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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