But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.
When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.
I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.
If I could be involved in the hunting and fishing industry, that would be amazing. That said, I studied biology in college and that led into me being really involved in anatomy and being a pre-med major.
I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
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