Angelica wrote:
> I have a bachelors in science an 6 years of experience as a lab tech.
> But at this point i don't like to be working in the lab 90% of my time.
> I would like to explore the area of Public Health but have no idea
> what people do in general.
I know some people with degrees in publc health, so I'll
tell you what I've heard. There are a wide variety of things
someone in public health might do. Some people have
largely desks jobs running public health departments (budget
meetings, personnel reviews, etc.). Some people are on the
front lines. A person I knew years ago was going into her
first job as one of the CDC staff that gets sent to investigate
outbreaks of disease, sometimes new diseases, which isn't
my idea of a pleasant job, but I have great respect for anyone
willing to be sent to some place where people are sick and/or
dying of who knows what, which they might be exposed to,
in order to help protect the rest of us. Other jobs include
monitoring food, water, and sanitation conditions, keeping
track of populations of disease carrying creatures (rats,
mosquitoes, etc.) and working to control these, lab work
testing samples for infectious agents or harmful substances,
public education and outreach, and other things I've left out
or am not aware of.
Check with some schools (Johns Hopkins has a program),
and maybe ask someone at the local health department
about their experiences. There are probably professional
societies with websites that have further information, but I
don't know their names.
>
> I still like science but want to explore more before going back to
> shool.
>
> Have you feel the same? If so, did you explore new jobs? Wich ones?
>
> Thanks!!!
>
> 
I've worked in several fields of science (physics,
biomedical research, meteorology, climatology),
partly out of interest and partly out of desire to
have a job.
So far things have worked out to
fulfill both reasonably well.
Cheers,
Russell
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