I found very early in my medical laboratory career that without a B.S. you have the status of a cockroach. After I got my B.Sc I then found out if they couldn't call you Doctor you again had the status of a cockroach. Fortunately at that time one could own and be a director of a medical laboratory without formal education in the medical sciences or even a degree. I opened my own laboratory and accepted work from physicians' offices and small hospitals before the greed of the physicians who demanded kickbacks or special favors soured me on clinical laboratories.
EdOn Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lindenberg <ff.lindenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
I also read on Wired about a guy that left his PhD to run his DIY bio lab. Do you guys think it's crazy?
Nope, Wired is not crazy in this instance. That person probably exists and he probably indeed did that. You don't need a PhD to work in your own lab.However, you might be asking a different question, like about employment possibilities in the life sciences without a degree. There's a lot of available biology labor on the market that has a degree and is already willing to work for low wages (because "science isn't about money".. which is fine, more money for me I guess). These trends in hiring might change if the science industry starts hiring more for science talent rather than degrees, but that won't become a trend in the industry on its own.You could run miles around the average biology graduate with your own lab, or even your own company, but if you want to get a job as a fifth-level pipettor, then I would say that working on your own lab, doing everything yourself, is an extremely round-about way of getting that job..--
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