Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder, Kratom Powder for Sale   North Spore Cultivation Supplies, Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
OfflineNormal Flora
Female


Registered: 05/16/10
Posts: 882
Last seen: 8 days, 4 hours
Phlebotomy
    #18861637 - 09/19/13 05:04 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I meant to post this last night, in hopes of getting tips from anyone who does phlebotomy.  I'm about to go in for a full work day of nothing but phlebotomy.  I am soooo sick to my stomach  :puke:  I just want to go back to the Microbiology lab. I'll probably have to go back another day, I have to get 100 sticks.  Anyone have any tips?

I don't wanna! I don't wanna! :icanthearyou:


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinerohr
silly cybin
 User Gallery


Registered: 08/08/11
Posts: 384
Loc: TX Flag
Last seen: 8 years, 7 months
Re: Phlebotomy [Re: Normal Flora]
    #18861716 - 09/19/13 06:15 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Why do you have to do it?


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleSamuel L Jackson
Bad Motherfucker
Male

Registered: 12/10/09
Posts: 8,391
Re: Phlebotomy [Re: Normal Flora]
    #18861751 - 09/19/13 06:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Get a different job then...?

I assume you have a degree in microbiology/biochemistry/yadda yadda yadda.

You don't have to work in a lab. Think of all of the huge biotech companies that sell products. Who is selling the product? Who is on the end of the phone line when a researcher calls in because they need some help troubleshooting a piece of equipment, use of a chemical, or use of an enzyme?

It's not some dipshit with a business degree. It's someone with a microbiology/biochemisty/yadda yadda yadda degree.

All of those big companies want someone who understands how the product works and what makes the product better than a competing product to get researchers to buy/use the product; otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell the product to someone who actually knows what it does. The researcher would end up with some incompetent fool on the other end of the phone line and say, "Fuck this. I'll just buy it from -insert other company-."

You can get some pretty nice jobs with a degree that initially makes it seem like your life is destined to be chained to a bench... you don't ever have to come close to a single person, needle, petri dish, or whatever.

All of the huge biotech/medical/chemical companies need more than just bench bitches for R&D/production, and they like those people to know stuff about the products. And these jobs often aren't hard to find because 90% of people with degrees relevant to the biotech industry think they are destined to work in a lab... and that just isn't the case.

Hell, you can probably get a job as a straight-up chemist if you have a biochemistry degree. There is so much overlap between the two fields that chemical manufacturing companies will take in biochemists with open arms. You won't be taking blood samples there.

You gotta diversify your job searches, nigga.


--------------------



Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Onlinekoods
Ribbit
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/26/11
Posts: 106,051
Loc: Maryland/DC Burbs
Last seen: 5 minutes, 37 seconds
Re: Phlebotomy [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
    #18861808 - 09/19/13 07:21 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal phlebotomy...


--------------------
NotSheekle said
“if I believed she was 16 I would become unattracted to her”


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblevinsue
Grand Old Fart
Male User Gallery


Registered: 02/17/04
Posts: 17,953
Loc: The Garden State(NJ) Flag
Re: Phlebotomy [Re: Normal Flora]
    #18862006 - 09/19/13 08:47 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Funny thing about :syringe:. Back when I was using, I could shoot left or right handed, never needed to tie off because I have very prominent veins. I'd shoot coke in the back seat of a moving car. These days I practically faint when blood is drawn at the hospital. I fuckin' hate needles...:shrug: . . . :peace:


--------------------

"All mushrooms are edible; but some only once." Croatian proverb. BTW ...
  Have You Rated Ythans Mom Yet ?? ... :taser:  ... HERE'S HOW ... (be nice) .  :mod: ... :peace:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblevolcomstoner
I'll have just one more xanax
Male User Gallery


Registered: 07/20/09
Posts: 11,231
Loc: Minnesnowta
Re: Phlebotomy [Re: vinsue]
    #18862202 - 09/19/13 09:43 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Oh man, I LOVE needles


--------------------

HAIL SATAN

Vas donc jouer dans le traffic


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineg00ru
lit pants tit licker
Male User Gallery


Registered: 08/09/07
Posts: 21,088
Loc: georgia, us
Last seen: 5 years, 1 month
Re: Phlebotomy [Re: Normal Flora]
    #18862261 - 09/19/13 09:55 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Laurelei said:
I don't wanna! I don't wanna! :icanthearyou:




go in there but dont put any pressure on yourself to succeed or anything :likeaboss:


--------------------
check out my music!
drowse in prison and your waking will be but loss


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineNormal Flora
Female


Registered: 05/16/10
Posts: 882
Last seen: 8 days, 4 hours
Re: Phlebotomy [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
    #18863194 - 09/19/13 01:55 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

rohr said:
Why do you have to do it?




I'm actually a Lab Tech, and at bigger hospitals you don't HAVE to draw.  They just want you to know how.  I'm supposed to do 100...I was in the outpatient lab for 5 hours today.  ONE dude came through and I fucking drew his blood like a champ! But that was just one, and he had a big, beautiful vein.

Quote:

g00ru said:
go in there but dont put any pressure on yourself to succeed or anything :likeaboss:




Yeah man, as I was driving to the hospital I just tried not to think about and just kept telling myself that "At least I care.  I care if I hurt them and I want to do a good job" I feel like if I at least come in with that attitude, then it can't go too bad.

Quote:

Samuel L Jackson said:
Get a different job then...?

I assume you have a degree in microbiology/biochemistry/yadda yadda yadda.

You don't have to work in a lab. Think of all of the huge biotech companies that sell products. Who is selling the product? Who is on the end of the phone line when a researcher calls in because they need some help troubleshooting a piece of equipment, use of a chemical, or use of an enzyme?

It's not some dipshit with a business degree. It's someone with a microbiology/biochemisty/yadda yadda yadda degree.





Yeah, I've thought about eventually moving on to something like that or research, even.  Right now, I actually enjoy the lab. I like reading the plates and doing testing on specimens.  Once I get these 100 sticks in, I won't have to fool with phlebotomy again.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder, Kratom Powder for Sale   North Spore Cultivation Supplies, Injection Grain Bag   Mushroom-Hut Liquid Cultures


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Microbiology vs. Computer Science MycoThrill 1,714 6 02/28/10 09:05 PM
by ShockValue
* I'm failing Microbiology, but I'm glad I'm taking it
( 1 2 all )
Hyper_Panda_GO 1,375 25 04/16/08 01:39 AM
by circularvortex
* wish me luck for my microbiology test! psychomime 607 8 11/06/07 09:57 PM
by psychomime
* Know of any good microbiology online suppliers? yumyum 224 0 12/31/05 02:08 PM
by yumyum
* Are there any good medical careers that aren't that hard to get into?
( 1 2 all )
skatealex2 2,116 25 07/10/12 06:22 PM
by Normal Flora
* Rant* My old flame's current girlfriend (pics)
( 1 2 3 4 5 6 all )
Crystal G 10,831 101 09/28/07 05:06 PM
by mushroomplume
* Your top 3 books?
( 1 2 3 4 all )
jodidonino 2,948 65 08/13/16 09:41 PM
by StuckInShanghai
* why [do] you believe in god(s)?
( 1 2 3 4 ... 21 22 )
FreedomForAll 18,357 432 09/07/11 05:37 PM
by rockycrag

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
454 topic views. 5 members, 48 guests and 27 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.024 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 14 queries.