/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16117647
sigh, I want to vocational school for cell culture and QA/QC for protein production
there where actual jobs for this back in 2015, including some US startups so desperate they where training brewers to learn the trade
>2017
>work at a popcorn factory out of HS
>spend 300$/semester parttime to train
>vocational program required a 4 month internship capstone
>greatest fucking mistake of my life
>manually maintain small pools of hela cells in med instead of industrial-scale machinery
>only experienced in QC instead of the tech
>finish degree, can't work the machine for the pharma companies actually looking for people
>internship says I should have a degree for their QA/QC
>"use your skills to cure cancer instead of making drugs"
what a fucking joke
>only real job prospect is blood labs to do what theranos couldn't
>move to 4 year program
>Covid
>fucking india and china, who actually have cell culture scale producing everything
>by this point in a scholarship due to marketable skills in cell counting for mice/blood work
in 4 years I could have been managing or at least QA/QC this tech I was supposed to be certified in, and now industrial scale animal cell culture is more than fucking startups or high-degree medical
>fuck it, thesis in using this tech to make bioweapons (only partially being hyperbolic)
pharma is at least still looking for people with the biotech cert and an AS if you can find some way to hook an internship to run those machines, do not go into med and fuck it up, also take some python courses