An Open Letter to all the "Biological Staffing Services" out there:

[athelind]

• "Ecology" is a "Biological Science", too.
  
• There's more than one kind of "Environmental Scientist". I'm the kind who didn't spend years on his B.S. to change air conditioner filters.
  
• Don't treat me like an idiot because my definition of "biology" encompasses more than one cell at a time.
  
• If your firm doesn't cover jobs in my field, don't act as if that's my shortcoming.
  
• Someone with valuable, hard-to-find skills in marine surveying doesn't want to be told that you might be able to get him a job washing bottles, if the employer's not real picky. He'd much rather hear you say, "No, I'm sorry, we really don't handle that kind of work."
  

I mean no disrespect to those in the Glassware Biology fields. I have more than a few friends who happily toil in labs across the country, if not the globe. While I have an Associate's degree in Biotechnology myself, is not my field, and I deeply resent being treated like a red-headed stepchild by "Bio-Staffing" companies because my education, skills, and abilities encompass the macroscopic instead of focusing on the microscopic.

Comments

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

Cool!

I've had quite an adventure at Ohio State -- nearly had to leave the university twice and actually was forced out of one advisor's lab -- but I'm happily working in a plant virology lab now, ending Year 5 of my PhD work.

My previous lab was immunology, but the current one is all molecular stuff. :>

-- ArchTeryx