>>13951347>Also, you should know what your samples actually contain instead of mindlessly processing them like a robotYeah I know, I was way more careful when I started this job, got careless over the last year or so. I remember the stories in chem labs about professors and students who got careless and died needlessly. I recognize my retardation. But, again, I never wanted to work with infectious diseases on a regular basis anyway. My goal is for my career to not involve anything more dangerous than the usual carcinogenic chemicals from biology kits. I am a careless person, frankly I don't belong around super dangerous shit.
>>13951386>What makes you more retarded is thinking you can get HIV that easilyI get like 20 emails a week about covid and one video per year on hepatitis. I am now realizing that real safety training will be self-motivated. But yeah I am likely fine. If real scientists don't give a shit about some samples they give me then there's probably a reason.
>>13951417I'm white if that's what you're wondering. Not a diversity hire or anything, just good at interviewing when it comes to topics I'm interested in. Lab skills and scientific interest aren't necessarily correlated. Starting to realize that your average construction worker/electrician would probably make a better lab technician than a science major since those guys probably have larger stakes most of the time and and good at not being careless in dangerous environments. I'll probably just switch to computational biology at some point in my life, that way I won't cause the next pandemic and I can just stay hoooome when it does happen.
