Career Advice?

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., zulyblue <zulyblue at y...> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 
Well, I'm almost 28, from Massachusetts, but have
> lived in Cleveland, OH for 2.5 years and am more than
> ready to move back to New England. I have a BA in
> biology and a MS in entomology 

Entomology; is that bugs?? :) 

Er, sorry zulyblue but I've never met an entomologist.

Anyhow, this is a small world.  I live in medical mecca (aka Boston) 
and have worked at three of the biggest medical centers of the world 
in my past twenty two years of working in the medical profession; 
Mass General, Brigham and Women's and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. 
And I REFUSE TO BELIEVE that there isn't anything here in the bay 
state that might suit you to a tee. NOT to mention all the biotech 
firms here, and there is always medical sales.  

I'm not sure what you mean by having a molecular biology background.  
One of my med-tech friends just got a biotech position, and has 
basiclly the same experience as me, and it doesn't include a lot of 
molecular biology.  (I also have a BA in biology and a Medical 
Technology degree, with ASCP certification, in which I am trained in 
the clinical lab setting.)  

Is going back to school an option?  I know there is a great demand 
for nurse practioners.  And I just recently heard of a "new" up and 
coming area of interest; as a "medical liason" between the clinical 
laboratories and the practioners and clinicians.  Dr. Walter (Sunny) 
Dziek, who is the head of the Blood Bank at MGH, just told us of such 
a positon that he is trying to implement at a recent conferance I 
attended.  There always seems to be this miscommunication between the 
two areas that we tend to need a sort of "referee".

Well, I'm ranting. I'm not trying to sell you into coming back, but 
if you're from here, there's no place like home.

You can probably go to some websites (Partners.; that's 
MGH,BWH,DFCI,CHMC, and some other little places:  Caregroup.; that's 
Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Mt. Auburn Hospital, NE 
Baptist, and a few more.: Caritas Christi,: well, I'm sure you get my 
drift. I'm not sure if they are *dot* .org or .edu )
Look on the Boston Globe and Boston Herald websites, as well as 
Monster.com.  I'm sure they all have some links.

I don't know If I helped.  Good luck in your quest. Let us know.

Anna . . .