Where will the job of forensic scientist be ten years from now?
I think the public will know more about DNA testing. More people will enter the field and that’ll increase competition for jobs. There probably won’t be as many advances in DNA testing as there have been in the last ten years, but we’ll be able to collect DNA from even more places than we can today. What’s the next step on your career path? I like what I do now. Eventually, I’d like to move into management, though the competition for manager jobs is fierce. What advice do you have for students entering high school? Enjoy your science classes but don’t focus only on science. And keep an open mind about what you want to do. What you end up doing–and loving–might be different from what you originally had in mind. Keep an open mind about what you want to do. What’s the part you like least about your job? Working on crime cases that involve kids. What’s your average stress level at work? Being a forensic scientist is pretty stressful. There’s always a lot going on, making it hard to focus
