Should I keep my major as Medical Lab Science or switch to Accounting?

jjwinkle
Sun, 14 Feb 2016 06:44:45 +0000

I don’t understand the leap from “the scariness of using needle” to accounting. Is it because you are severely focused on jobs that are in strong demand?

" I love labs but not in the hospital…I may go to industry to be a food scientist or cosmetolog(y)". There are plenty of lab jobs in non-medical industries, and people with less appropriate degrees than MLS (and people with no degrees) are doing them. These jobs pay the salary you’re looking for. There are laboratory analysis jobs in environmental monitoring, food nutritional and residues evaluation, water quality, forensics, and pharmaceutical, food, food additive, pesticide, ink, oil, adhesives, rubber, paper, petroleum, detergent, fragrance, etc. manufacturing, Here’s a tip: put “chemist” in the search field to exclude most medical laboratory jobs.

If you want to be in demand for non-medical lab jobs, get experience operating HPLC, ICP, and/or GC-MS. Take any available chemistry classes which give you exposure to them. This is more important than what you major in.