I've just started working as a Trainee Biomedical Scientist within the Cellular Pathology department of a local hospital. I've just completed my first week in the lab and I LOVE IT!
At last I have found a job whereby I actually look forward to going to work each day.
Yes, I'm finding it quite tiring (who wouldn't after 4 months off) but that doesn't matter because I really am loving what I'm doing.
So far I have spent my time in the dissection room watching Pathologists at work and learning how to book in samples to the lab. I get to see some pretty gruesome stuff I can tell you but it's all amazing! I cannot quite believe just how unaffected I am by all the things I've seen this week. Just a few years ago I couldn't stand the sight of even the smallest drop of blood and now, well without painting too horrid a picture, I see a lot of it and it's pretty much all day every day now. Before you think I'm incredibly disturbed or macabre, I'm not I just find it all so fascinating on a purely educational level.
I'll try to post more as my year long placement continues.