I have finally finished all my phlebotomy classes. I have been in school for 2 and half years. I started off taking medical billing and coding classes but found it mind numbingly boring. So I decide that phlebotomy was for me and I just got my results back and I passed everything all I have left to do is my clinicals and Iam ready for a job!!! not bad for a 49yr old, I finally know what I will do when I grow up. thanks for letting me share my good news.

My hubby is a lab tech and runs a phlebotomy business on the side going to people's homes and collecting their blood if they're too busy or too feeble to go to the collection clinic.

And two of our good friends have just retired from a phlebotomy clinic.

It is a good job and you'll meet many interesting characters!
Good luck in your job search!

Congratulations and good luck with a new job.

Woohoo good for you. Congrats andgood luck with the job search.

yeah

Congrats! Now, when do you have to grow up?

good for you! :thumbup: my daughter started on a degree for pharmacist at the age of 42. and my mom graduated from nursing the same day i graduated from high school. it's never too late to start a new career.

Congratulations Carrie Jo! It does my heart good to hear this.

Too many times people feel that 'it's too late'. I have always believed in going after what you want.........if you have a dream, go for it!

Congratulations! You've proved it's never to late to learn!

Great job!! I wish you all the best in finding your dream job now.

Great job!

Congratulations on completing the course and finding what you really want to be when you grow up.

mltquilt

Doing a happy dance for you!!!

Congratulations. I hope you find a career that is very satisfying. Thanks for sharing your good news.

Officially, I've been a secretary, electronics technician, and now a longarm quilter. Still waiting to see what I'll be when I grow up. Anyone else?

Woot woot!!!! That is COOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome :thumbup: Job well done :-P Now the time for a happy dance :thumbup:

Terrific! Congratulations to you for all your hard work.

Congratulations!

Congratulation!!!!

Better late than never!! Congrats!!

Yeah for you!!! Congrats.

Congratulations.

Congratulations on finding your calling. Good luck on your job search.

Proud of you. You don't have to grow up.

You're never too old to learn something new! I hope this career is everything you want it to be. Congrats!

Congrats! I knew you could do it.....How are you and family doing? Started that jacket yet? I finished the cat quilt, 30 knitted hats now need to start quilting the charity quilts..not in mood.....did get another sweatshirt at garage sale to make jacket...Don't know color or styles yet but for a young girl probably 10 to 12 years old....
Keep up the good work!
Carol

I finished MIBC last year after being laid off from a retail career, and couldn't find a job anywhere! Have a detailed medical background, long story short, life threw me a curveball and I moved 5 hours back north with my daughter and grandkids, was here 2 weeks and got a job! Not in MIBC, as a cook for a Sr Center! I am blissfully thankful and it is only 2 blocks from the house! Sometimes things don't always work out the way we want, but end up better in the longrun! BTW, I am the same age, never give up!!! Congrats! Awsome job!

Way to go!!!!

Proof that we should follow our dreams - give yourself a pat on the back!!

Congratulations!!

Congrats

Congratulations! I am 38 and still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up. (Apparently rich and thin weren't options! haha!)

:thumbup: Congratulations.

I was a lab tech way back in the 50's & 60's and we were lucky enough to go around the hospital doing our own blood draws before going back to the lab. That was my favorite part, to meet the patients.

Can you imagine, in this day and age, if you had to sharpen your own needles? Vacutainers?? We had to wash and sterilize our own glass syringe parts and then try to match up plungers and barrels so the plunger would go into a barrel without blood being able to leak out around the edges!! And then take the needle off to put the contents into test tubes. Most of the testing was done "manually". Blood counters were just coming in.

In the lab we ran a "normal" blood sample every morning to calibrate and guess who were the "normal" samples!! That's how I found out that I had Mono!

Ah, thanks for the memories!! Enjoy your career!

Thanks everyone, I knew you all would apreciate what I have accomplished.

Congratulations!

Congratulations. :thumbup:

congrats

Congratulations! You have a right to be pleased with yourself. Good luck with the job search.