During my junior and senior years in high school, I worked at a local hospital, where the operating room nurses trained me to both set up and clean up an operating room before and after surgery and how to assist the surgeon during the operation.
Two of the most interesting surgeries that I got to assist in were brain surgery and open-heart surgery.
I was also trained to assist the pathologists in the morgue.
Since I had a strong interest in the medical field, I attended and completed the education to become a Respiratory Therapist. After graduation and getting some actual work experience, I became a Registered Respiratory Therapist.
The training for this program was taught by Pulmonary Physicians, Anesthesiologists, Pediatricians, Surgeons, The Chief Respiratory Therapist, and his assistants, as well as other individuals who were either Department heads or Supervisors of areas such as Bacteriology, Pharmacy, etc.
The training included both lectures and clinical experience, 12 hours per day and 6 days per week. It was a grueling program and every instructor worked very closely with us.
After being exposed to Tuberculosis more than 50 times and actually becoming very ill from Infectious Hepatitis from a patient during a cold blue, I decided to get out of the field.
I became interested in computers, so I was off to school once again to get some training.
During my time in the computer field, I have worked with IBM mainframes for over 15 years, in the capacities of a computer operator, programmer, programmer analyst, and software support.
The most interesting and challenging was software support.
After personal computers were introduced, I was able to buy my first pc and have worked exclusively on PCs ever since.
In summary, I have an extensive background in both the medical and computer fields.
