I want to get a career in forensic science.i need help badlyyyy please help me with this and john jay please?

Question

Hi. i am a senior in my high school right know .im planing on taking 2 years of community college then trasfering to a 4 year college.At this moment i am crazy over forensic science.you can say i have a background in the past and justice was never served so i rather not let no one end up the same. My dream college is john jay college.Does any one know about this college . Is it hard to get in it.How is life when your a forencis scientist.What do you do for work? do you have to do grave yard shifts like until 12 am or more and the BIG question is how much do you get paid??? someone please help me.

Answer 1

I can only help you a little.  One of my 20 jobs (people kept yanking me from jobs and giving me better ones) was a forensic vehicle crash investigator, where death was involved, school buses, transport trucks, trains etc.  It led to all-death, murder and sports accident death investigator, fire and building collapses w/explosions at the same time, for Insurance Companies, together with law enforcement, and Police didn't like it, too bad.  This is not quite the same as you are asking about.

I can not divulge how I knew about the incidents, if immediate, and not informed or welcomed by the "authorities".  It is a trade secret.

It was all hours of the day and night, and many different cities with extensive travel.  Gruelling and bloody.  Up in the mountains beside plane crashes and cabin fires, firearms shootings, stabbings, literally everywhere.  Sometimes digging in the gutter and refuse bins.

The challenge was great, you'll need energy and interest, and the pay or compensation will leave you breathless.

It is hard to find time time to enjoy the fruits of your labor, and the images and cases stay with you, in your mind and in your personal attitudes and psychology forever.

You can ease up at the end of your career by going into first aid, physical therapy, or teaching, and counseling, developmental, grief or occupational guidance & mentoring/training.

Answer 2

I'm currently in college for an Investigations program. We did have to do a huge course on Forensic science and it was quite interesting. It was fun lifting and indentifying fingerprints and shoe prints and examing different wounds and blood spatter. Yes you would have to do some graveyard shifts because you can't pick and choose the times when you want to start investigating a scene, must be done ASAP. I think the hardest part about being one is trying to not make mistakes. I mean if say you lift a fingerprint or a shoe print and it's the only one and you mess it up then your in trouble. I'm not entirely sure about the pay but I can't imagine it being bad.