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Ways to move up

• Finish the bachelor's degree

  Upgrades you to medical laboratory scientist, more responsibility and a clear pay rise.

• Blood bank work

  Matching and issuing blood. Higher stakes, and a specialist certification exists for it.

• Phlebotomy certification

  Cheap, quick, and useful in smaller labs where one person does both jobs.

• Instrument troubleshooting

  Becoming the person who can fix the analyzer at 3am makes you very hard to replace.