Is anybody a labatory tech. in any field?

Question

As a junior in high school I want to make sure I make the right choice maybe u could share your experience with me...

Answer 1

I am not technically a laboratory technician yet. I have worked all of this past school year as a lab technician in our school lab. Obviously the real deal will be quite a bit different, but the experience helped me to choose my major and decide to work as a lab tech in college.

I've learned to do the basic things techies do, such as setting up and executing labs multiple times to obtain good results, making buffers, preparing media for cell growth, sterile techniques, making solutions(determining what is soluble in what,etc), and proper disposal of lab wastes. According to my teacher, who has worked as a lab tech, these are the types of things that techies do. It also states this several times in my biotechnology textbook, "Biotechnology, Science for the New Millennium."

Though I am technically not that experienced yet, feel free to contact me if you have more questions I could help you with.

Answer 2

Here is what I have garnered from a little more than 35 years in the work force.

If you have a burning desire to always work for someone else, to always provide answers to some one else's questions, to place yourself on the labor market day after day as nothing more than a bond servant (biblical name for a worker), then by all means, become a lab tech.

If you, on the other hand, want to drive a flash car, live in a nice home and have a successful career and life, study entrepreneurialism very carefully.  Research the internet for the most financially lucrative ways to earn money.  And above all, read the following three books over and over again and again:

The Richest Man in Babylon

The World's Greatest Salesman

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Oh, and if you can, by the time you are 18 years old, put $4,000 in a ROTH IRA and never touch it until you retire.

By that time it should have matured to around $7 million dollars.

Everything else you do can be a hobby.

Good luck.