I had a bad day at work today. Just one of many. Our performance evaluation is nearing its due date and I am yet to start typing it in. Well, completing the evaluation sheets would be easy enough if only I have been productive enough these past six months.
I am a medical technologist by education and training. Right now however I find myself working for a top pharma company as a research associate. Its still lab work but I sure do miss working in a clinical lab.
Ah, those were the days! I loved working in a laboratory, waking up early to meet the rush of laboratory requests in the morning. I miss seeing blood, mmm, I miss taking blood actually. I miss the zen of hearing the centrifuge whirring while pushing down the red cells and churning up the precious plasma/serum.
Now I miss the joy of getting things done. I work in research. I go to work and sit on my desk to read scientific journals, make project proposals, budgets, protocol. All this to plan my experiments months ahead of time. Oh, I do get things done (sometimes that is!) but only after such a prolonged time. Sometimes I feel I have bitten more than I can chew. My poor brain isn't used to thinking so much!
Don't get me wrong I love working as a researcher but I love being a medical technologist more. Plus, I wouldn't be a researcher if I hadn't been a medical technologist.
I am making this blog to re-live being a medical technologist. I have always wished that there would be a website that would be a go to site for medical technologists or medical technologist students. Well, I hope with this first post would be the start of a series of poor attempts by yours truly to be such a site.
Watch out for updates to this blog in the coming days.
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