This is what I do?

[sammyphoenix]

I feel so incompetent at my job a lot of the time. I'm not really up on all the proper terms that are suppose to be used, so jargon talk goes over my head, and I have a hard time recalling how everything works. I feel like half the time people come for me for help I end up having them correcting me on things, because I don't have all the points together, or I have to send them to someone else because I don't know how to help.

I often wonder how in the world I got into this field? Science was never my strong area. I find it all interesting, but I don't really understand most of it. Even worse now, my worst area even in scince was biochemistry, and somehow I got a job being the labs biochemist! Really?! How did I do that?

I just try to keep myself busy, even though I know some don't think that I am and I'm just hanging out for work :(. Today the undergrad said that to me. I was kind of offended because I had been digging through articles trying to find stuff to read to help me understand what I'm working on and how others are using it, I had been fighting with math so I could do a test run of a sample once another worker got my device, that I have been waiting months for, set up and working. I do stuff a lot of the time, I just spend a lot of it online at my desk rather than getting to spend all day at the bench. I would love to be at my bench most of the day, but my work doesn't allow that. There are spaces where I just can't really work on anything. Somethings spin for 20 minutes and there isn't must else to do in that time. Somethings I have to wait hours on, and usually I can't do my work until that step is done. Though I think I may have a cycle figured out so that I can keep working even during this long spell.

I don't know. I just worry about my work, and I do work most of the time. It just doesn't look like it when I'm restricted by not having the correct materials or waiting on steps to pass.

Comments

[dickgrayson]

The undergrad sounds kind of mean. o.o; I understand when I worked in Serology there was a lot of waiting. It was not fun but had to happen for the test. Your job sounds very interesting however! A biochemist! And you get to it sounds like do research? That sounds amazing. :D

[sammyphoenix]

She is very talkative, and tends to bad mouth people sadly, so I'm not sure what to make of her because she does seem nice, but that may just be her social side. Currently I am working on expressing proteins and testing their interactions with lipids outside a plant system. So, I am getting preliminary data for those who actually run the experiments on plants. I enjoy it for the most part, but a lot of it is just waiting around, especially if I want to keep a nice 8-5 work schedule. I usually come in on weekends too, so I'm not a total slacker. She just makes me cranky sometimes.

Yay! SCIENCE!

[dickgrayson]

Sounds like she does not know how to have a normal conversation, maybe? I am glad she at least seems nice. So very interesting! That sounds so neat!! I am wanting to get to the more research side of science. I think it sounds like whatever lead you to this job was great. :D

I agree! YAH SCIENCE. XD

[sammyphoenix]

Maybe. I've noticed that she doesn't seem to like silence. While she works she has her headphones in to the point that if you do talk to her she can't hear you. But often when she comes to eat lunch in our office she is none stop talk, even if we are all working on somethings. I don't understand, but I'm not much of a talker and like the quiet times.

What kind of work are you focusing on now? You mentioned that you did some serology work before (I don't know much about that other than it deals with blood), are you still in that area or focusing somewhere else?

[dickgrayson]

I guess she just says what comes to her mind first. I am like you and like the quiet times.

I Necropsy but help in BacT also. :D