Careers: Experience is key (V0343)
Kerry Allen, a senior technician and laboratory manager in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Waikato, describes how she has continued learning new skills throughout her career.
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Kerry Allen, a senior technician and laboratory manager in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Waikato, describes how she has continued learning new skills throughout her career. Here, Kerry explains how microbiology can keep you interested.
Transcript
Kerry Allen (University of Waikato): I left school and started work as a medical laboratory technician. So I did a few years there learning all the basic skills there, and then after that, I started work as a technician in a dairy company.
The skills that I have have been acquired over a long time.
It is always good to have that long-term experience because there are always times when you are asked, “How do you do that?”, then somewhere a long time ago, you remember you did something similar. I can draw on that.
There’s always something different to do during the day, and I find with microbiology, it is quite exciting. Because you do some work one day and you have to incubate it, and the next day, you don’t know what you are going to come in to find and so that’s what gets me going – to come back and find what’s happened from what I have done the previous day.
Metadata
- Published:
- 16 November 2007
- Copyright:
- The University of Waikato
