Can a freshmen be a Lab Assistant?

[Disarming]

I am a freshman, and I want a job relevant to the medical field. I am planning to do volunteer work as well. Quick thing, I live in Hawaii on a neighboring island; Kauai and well there is a shortage of workers.

To my disadvantage there is one thing holding me from that job, medical terminology. 🙄 Is there a chance of me getting this job anyways, perhaps out of their sheer desperation?

If not, is their a way I can learn it?

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[Disinence2]

Why do u need to know medical terminology for a Lab Assistant... if your a freshman most schools will understand that u have little/no experience and someone should take u in and teach you something. Im really not sure what your asking...but yes, i know poeple who are like 16 and in highschool and working in a research lab at my university

 

[szhao]

Q: "Do you know how to operate a rPCR, Affymetric Microarray, hybridizer, and Code Link scanners"
A: "ahhhhhhhhhhhh"

"Get out of here"

hehe, this services both way, knowing terminology is important but they will teach you all of it well unless, if you don't know what a cell is haha they will probably be like we will hire you after you take some basic bio courses

 

[Disarming]

Wicked. Thanks!

It's not for my school. It's actually for a private company.

16 really? This company requires you to be atleast 18 and have graduated or earned a GED.

 

[braluk]

if you cannot get a job as a lab assistant in the freshmen year, do what i did, offer to volunteer there without pay and then once you have some experience under your belt, ask to see if you can get it as a paid job.

 

[MirrorTodd]

Nice to see another local on here. Is the medical terminology a required jobskill. It's not all that hard to pick-up. Especially if you're around it all the time at that job. I say go for it.

 

[Disarming]

I'll definately try volunteering!! I hope they'll let me! Thanks!

Todd- I know! Honolulu? Lucky boy! Unfortunately it is required.

 

[BeanerMD]

I did it as a freshman in college at a large research-affiliated university. I loved it- and everyone I worked with was super patient in teaching me methodologies and techniques. It was a great way to get some experience and know what I was talking about once I got into my upper level classes where we dissected research papers.