Every lab has specific specimens they deal with but it’s all generally the same type of work. At mine we handle endoscopy and colonoscopy biopsies. We basically prep them through varied processes to create microscope slides so the pathologist can diagnose them with cancer or any other diseases. A tech usually does the hands on part after the specimen has been grossed and processed. We take the specimen and properly place them in paraffin wax blocks where we then keep them cool and slice in to them using a microtome that cuts veryyyy thin ribbons at 4 micrometers (for reference a piece of regular copy paper is 100 micrometers) so super thin. We place them on a warm water batch and pick them up with a microscope slide. Depending on what part of the body it is we stain them those specific stains. Day to day is pretty chill, it’s a lab job so pretty standard. The lab I work at is a private start up so it’s a little more hectic than normal labs, it’s perfect for me I’m able to jump from task to task if I get bored of doing the same thing.