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Posted in Uncategorized | August 27th, 2011

What is your career? (Explain for high school students)?

I am a medical technologist with a bachelors of science degree that I earned in the allied health program at LSUHSC. I work in the laboratory of a major truama hospital. I process and analyze blood, urine, body fluids, and tissues to give doctors a large part of the information they need to treat the patient. Much of this testing is performed “Stat,” because the majority of our patients are critical and the doctor needs answers quickly. We operate, monitor, and troubleshoot large precision equipment that automates some of this analysis, however many aspects of the laboratory are still manual, such as microscopic work. There are different areas in the lab that you may rotate through, it’s like having a different job every day: Chemistry, coagulation, urine, microbiology, toxicology, hematology, receiving, and blood bank. This is an opportunity to get in the medical field without much patient contact (most programs require that you learn to draw blood from patients). I love it!

I am a lunchlady at a high school.
Most high school students know what that is. But its not all about serving students. I am the cashier. We also have other jobs beside just serving or taking the students money. We have to clean, wash dishes and power soak the floors.
We also get our food in and we have to stock the freezer which is minus 10 degrees the boxes weight up to 50 lbs.
We also have to stock the lines and take temps of all the food.
We make our own ranch and then have to pour them in to little cups to sell for 50 cents.
Alot of new people come to work thinking how hard is it to serve kids. Well its more than just serving. Its hard work. Its a 8 hr job put into 4 hrs. Its really fast pace. So always respect the lunchladies (there the ones that prepare your food LOL)
I been working there going on 5 yrs and just love it very much. I have great students that has respect for me. I treat them the way they want to be treated. I am known as the nice lunchlady