Career journals
ToxiCologistsI chose this career journal to be in my portfolio because I found it to be an interesting job. It sounds fun to be working with sophisticated technology to look for substances like drugs or alcohol in a crime. The projected growth for this field is fairly good. The one downside is that it requires an extended amount of training and lab work. The skills acquired from the identify an unknown substance activity in the crime scene unit lab would be very complementary to this career option. Also the GTT testing could be useful by getting used to working with chemical indicators.
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Crime Scene investigatorsI chose to put the Crime Scene Investigator career journal in my portfolio because this job just seems really exciting. I know it's not like how the tv shows portray it, but it still would be very awesome to be solving crimes and investigating for a job. For projected growth it looks to be about average which is not bad. We've covered many skills that would be useful for this job. All of the activities and skills we learned in the first crime scene unit would be helpful to a person looking into this career. Including analysis of, substances, fingerprints, blood spatter, footprints, hair, DNA, time of death, crime scene sketches, etc... are all great prep for a job like this.
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This career seemed fitting to go into the portfolio because the job sounded really interesting. A clinical geneticist is an important job for the upcoming generations and the demand for this job was quite high. The science applied seemed like interesting topics including relevant things we just learned about in class. Their job is to basically work with DNA , test, evaluate, and treat genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and sickle cell disease. Some examples of skills used in this career that I've learned in class are, making chromosome spreads, pedigrees, and punnet squares, family inheritance analysis, DNA electrophoresis... The list is long. The main reason why I liked this career is because it uses a lot of science on the job which is really awesome.
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I chose the Hematologist career to be in my portfolio because it was another career that was appealing and interesting. It's actually somewhat similar to a clinical geneticist in the aspect that they both diagnose and treat disorders. The difference is that the genticicist focuses more on genetics whereas the hematologist focuses on the blood disorders. The demand for this career was also very good with steady growth and a very high average salary. Some skills that I've acquired in class that would be used on the job would be performing a hematocrit, chromosome spreads, DNA gel electrophoresis, clotting tests... This career was another cool one and it's interesting that my Aunt has this actual career herself. I still can't see devoting myself to the numerous years of training and education required to become a hematologist, even though the job sounds interesting and highly rewarding as well.
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