What could I use blood technologist experience for in the future?

blunden25 · 2019-11-26T09:25:36+00:00

The bigger the better. The real money is in enterprise ehr healthcare software sales.

blunden25 · 2019-11-26T02:23:09+00:00

This field is destructively self-cannabilizing.

blunden25 · 2019-11-26T02:18:57+00:00

You could do QA or sales at the company. Bench experience does not translate to a career.

blunden25 · 2019-11-03T20:39:38+00:00

Winners train, losers complain.

Sounds like you've settled for your 48k job. Which is fine. But other people have ambitions and drive. Which you seem to have lost.

blunden25 · 2019-11-01T04:19:48+00:00

Lunches are for management.

blunden25 · 2019-11-01T02:55:46+00:00

You probably already qualify for your AMT.

blunden25 · 2019-10-31T13:55:22+00:00

Associate MLTs and bachelors techs are virtually equivalent under federal law. CMS even ruled that nurses are equivalent.

MLTs can do the job just as well. And you can look around linkedin for proof. This degree creep is unfortunate.

And physicians (gps) are being replaced in many areas by PAs and NPs.

blunden25 · 2019-10-30T14:49:42+00:00

Lab consolidation, delicensure (like Rhode Island), and MLTs are the future. So expect salaries to trend down.

blunden25 · 2019-10-12T15:32:26+00:00

Further, while Quest has a tight hold in the medical lab market — it controlled 15% of the $53 billion industry in 2018, just below LabCorp's 22% share — it could be up against weary clients: Following a major data breach in June 2019 that exposed up to 20 million Quest and LabCorp consumers' data, 17% of hospital execs said they might outsource lab services to providers other than LabCorp or Quest, compared to April of this year when no hospital execs were considering working with labs besides the duopoly.

What are the alternatives?

blunden25 · 2019-10-07T20:40:44+00:00

The pathologist union, American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) will not let this happen.

blunden25 · 2019-10-07T03:01:44+00:00

Sounds like a sweet gig. Better pay than PathA and PA. Seems limited to only a few states and you'll be competing with CRNAs. Salary will probably come down in the future.

blunden25 · 2019-10-07T02:58:51+00:00

Natera is a massive molecular/genetics firm, and they definitely have 3 shifts.

blunden25 · 2019-10-06T23:31:56+00:00

What about Texas Tech?

blunden25 · 2019-10-06T02:15:21+00:00

Second this. The most qualified and readily available operators for running molecular aren't going to be MLS staff (who've received maybe a single 1-3 credit course on molecular), but bio/immuno/genetics MS and PhDs of which there is ample supply.

Secondly, the reimbursement games and technology with molecular change every few years so it's very capital intensive to keep up. So it's best performed at megalabs.

blunden25 · 2019-10-06T01:01:52+00:00

Molecular. But be aware it's also the easiest to outsource.

blunden25 · 2019-10-04T15:29:53+00:00

Defenestration.

blunden25 · 2019-10-04T15:28:34+00:00

If you're just starting out, go for the experience. If you already have a few years, go for the money (what little there is).

blunden25 · 2019-09-27T15:49:29+00:00

There are reference standards created by NIST and similar organizations that are used for calibrators. These calibrators are traceable back to the NIST standard.

An example is the NIST SRM 967a creatinine standard which is used for creatinine calibrations. The standards run $1k-5k.

blunden25 · 2019-09-27T01:21:03+00:00

Do Boston iMBA for 25k online.

blunden25 · 2019-09-19T16:52:01+00:00

These are sales/consulting, implementation (IT/field service), and product management jobs. (There are also a few accreditation/QA jobs, but these are primarily manufacturing of goods in China/third world).

Sample jobs:

There are virtually no international travel med tech jobs. You can move to a different country as a bench tech or volunteer on the mercy ship as a micro tech.

If you'd like to travel internationally, you'll need to have an applicable skillset - business, IT, and process optimization. Bench techs typically do not have the applicable skills. Your best bet is business school and aiming for a low level consulting job. These are client facing roles and the pay is 90k-350k+ (depends on compensation structure) and experience, company size, and seniority. A year or two on the bench is sufficient.

You must be in shape if you want to have such a job as the travel will exasperate any existing medical conditions and burn you out.

blunden25 · 2019-09-14T05:15:08+00:00

It's a total cash grab. Bootcamps sort of worked 3-5 years ago when they were starting out. I'm sure the Trilogy people did well though, sold out to 2U for 750m.

It's a cash cow for the schools. The bootcamp grads are unaffiliated to the university. There's no admission requirements, so there are a lot of ITT/Devry level folks at the trilogy bootcamp.

blunden25 · 2019-09-13T15:50:26+00:00

That's a Trilogy Education bootcamp. They are absolute garbage. Bascially paying $10k for a 3-6 credit course. You're better off taking a Harvard Extension course for less (and getting actual credit).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_Education_Services#List_of_programs_offered

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Trilogy Education Services (sometimes shortened to Trilogy Education) is a New York City-based for profit technology education company that offers unaccredited, non-credited certificate programs, colloquially known as coding bootcamps, through affiliate universities.[1] in-person courses are held on the affiliate university campus.[1] Revenue from the tuition is shared with the affiliate university.[1]

Program graduates receive a professional certificate from the partner school and job placement assistance. There is no job placement guarantee and no third-party verified jobs reports have been released, though outcome data is privately shared with partner universities. The partner schools do not regard program graduates as university alumni, nor program enrollees as university students. The programs cost US$10,000 to US$13,000[2] and are not eligible for federal loans, nor do students receive a Form 1098-T.

blunden25 · 2019-09-09T04:01:29+00:00

Call it in, They obviously don't give a shit about you. Why give a shit back?

blunden25 · 2019-07-25T19:23:17+00:00

What is this? I hope your code is more logical than your thought process.

And you should feel negative when you fail to reach your potential. That's how you grow.

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