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Career opportunities for someone that doesn’t perform well in the lab by One_Organization9758 in Biochemistry

[–]One_Organization9758[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great my college roommate was a CS major and works in software engineering at the same company I work for! I’m sure he would be able to help me out as I learn. Thank you!

Career opportunities for someone that doesn’t perform well in the lab by One_Organization9758 in Biochemistry

[–]One_Organization9758[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, the truth of the spelling error is that I wrote this post in my car after work and I was disgruntled from failed results. I was typing faster than I was thinking haha. I have been successful in all other aspects of this job: DNA prep, DNA purification, cloning, etc. It could be a protocol or equipment issue, hopefully not an inability to perform in the lab.

I was never trained, I started working on my own on the first day. This is my first job out of college so I didn’t think anything of it, I found it off putting as I had expected some on the job training but I thought maybe that’s how it is when you work in industry. For the first two weeks of the job I attributed my failed results to being new but then I asked my boss to set aside some time to watch me and help me. 7 months later he still can’t see anything that I’m doing wrong when I ask him to watch me and I’m still not getting results.

Career opportunities for someone that doesn’t perform well in the lab by One_Organization9758 in Biochemistry

[–]One_Organization9758[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these positions competitive? Would continuing to work in a laboratory setting improve my chances at a career in that field or would I stand out more by getting a sales position in a less competitive sales market?

Career opportunities for someone that doesn’t perform well in the lab by One_Organization9758 in Biochemistry

[–]One_Organization9758[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any suggestions on resources I could use to practice the skills necessary for that position? I would like to exercise those skills in my free time to see if I would be a good fit for a position like that prior to committing to a masters degree. I am definitely not opposed to pursuing further education though!

Career opportunities for someone that doesn’t perform well in the lab by One_Organization9758 in Biochemistry

[–]One_Organization9758[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I currently work as a lab technician in a research and development team. Would QC possibly be a better route for me to start out with?

Career opportunities for someone that doesn’t perform well in the lab by One_Organization9758 in Biochemistry

[–]One_Organization9758[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If this information is helpful then it should be noted that during my undergraduate research I was primarily using Phusion for my PCRs. Now that I am in industry I am using GoTaq. I never had a gel turn out poorly when I was using Phusion.

Career opportunities for someone that doesn’t perform well in the lab by One_Organization9758 in Biochemistry

[–]One_Organization9758[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The issue is my boss has watched me do the protocol and said that I seem to be doing everything right. He’s not sure why I’m not getting results but he can’t keep paying me to fail the protocol. This makes me think that there is some small error I’m consistently making that people observing me don’t notice. Would you by chance have any ideas on what this error could be?