Week to week we always get different micro-organisms, which makes it more interesting. I like how I have a variety of work because there’s so many areas that I can cover.
So that’s what we’re trying to find out by doing this testing. They could have salmonella, they could have campylobacter. So these are for people who have gastrointestinal problems. We do a lot of different kinds of swabs, which could be throat swabs, genital swabs, wound swabs and you get a lot of different bacteria and micro-organisms from all of these. So we do a variety of tests on different samples and those samples could be blood, urine, faeces. It can always change day to day and season to season. I would look at what area I am covering and how many samples I have in the day that I need to be finishing before I go. Sometimes I'll have to do 1pm until 10pm. When you’re a laboratory worker you do shift work. The difference is that in microbiology you have a sample that you can grow, and because you can grow, then you can do antibiotic testing that’s suitable for that bacteria, but in molecular you have a target, which could be a DNA and RNA, and that’s what you’re finding. Molecular is just the same thing, but we’re looking for the genetic material of those micro-organisms. So microbiology is the study of micro-organisms, which could be things like bacteria or fungi. It makes me feel like I'm doing something good in this world. We are basically like science detectives who are trying to help the doctors to diagnose and choose the correct treatment for the patient. Laboratory technicians do different testing to find out what is causing a disease or an infection. I work at Wellington SCL as a microbiology and molecular technician.
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