I did an internship at a crime lab for college. College over, I eventually applied to that very lab. I probably didn’t interview well (too much detail in my explanation for the layman juror), and I didn’t get the job. I asked where I could improve and was told the aforementioned along with the fact that other people who were interviewing had masters or were already certified forensic scientists. I had a bachelor’s. It was an entry job that I could’ve done in my sleep.
My BS is a dual major microbiology/chemistry. I was working temp because getting in full time was hard as heck and was usually the most unwanted of jobs, production (dangerous) or quality (boring). Full time also paid less and temp pay was shit. Certainly not enough to have your own place. Spent two years getting my pay as high as possible and realized a guy with a masters was making the same as me doing the same stuff. Then you had them highering associates for little over minimum wage doing much the same lab work. That is when I got a cert and changed to tech work.
I did an internship at a crime lab for college. College over, I eventually applied to that very lab. I probably didn’t interview well (too much detail in my explanation for the layman juror), and I didn’t get the job. I asked where I could improve and was told the aforementioned along with the fact that other people who were interviewing had masters or were already certified forensic scientists. I had a bachelor’s. It was an entry job that I could’ve done in my sleep.
My BS is a dual major microbiology/chemistry. I was working temp because getting in full time was hard as heck and was usually the most unwanted of jobs, production (dangerous) or quality (boring). Full time also paid less and temp pay was shit. Certainly not enough to have your own place. Spent two years getting my pay as high as possible and realized a guy with a masters was making the same as me doing the same stuff. Then you had them highering associates for little over minimum wage doing much the same lab work. That is when I got a cert and changed to tech work.