Lab tech.
I've been working with pluripotent stem cells since 1991.
I spent the last few years almost single-handedly making, expanding, and cryopreserving over a thousand induced pluripotent stem cell lines from 200 patients. For that I was rewarded with being fired when I asked a co-"worker" to stop taking credit for my work. I guess I too should have spent my days on facebook, shopping online, and stroking the boss' "ego" instead of doing my actual job.
Now I am in a new lab converting iPS cells into neurons. My workload is 1/20 of that of my previous job, and I am not allowed to work more than 40 hours a week. I'm working on trying to remember how to have a life.
Below is something my wife and I made. I got a skin biopsy from Nightline's Bill Weir, isolated fibroblasts from it, and reprogrammed them into iPS cells. Then my wife differentiated the iPS cells into cardiac tissue.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/vide...s-arm-18253132
