Tomorrow is my first day back at Uni after a 14 year gap to study a full time post graduate diploma in forensic science, and with any luck an MSc at the end of it.
It's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago I was in a secure job, which in the current climate is pretty hard to find, earning upwards of £30k pa and now I'm in full time education again earning SFA. I think it was a necessary step, the job was going nowhere and I was starting to go slowly mad. So it was decision time. Put up, or shut up.
I've had an interest in forensic science since I was at school and had it not been for the relatively few jobs in the field in 1992 when I was choosing my Uni course I'd have studied FS at undergraduate level. Things are different now, although there is the possibility that the number of labs in Scotland will be halved. Not a good prospect for someone looking to ultimately get a job in one of them.
The silver lining is that the Scottish Parliament recently backed an amendment calling for all 4 labs in Scotland to remain open, including the one in Edinburgh. SPSA will make their recommendation and the final decision will be up to the Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill. Wouldn't it be ironic if the party I have backed all my adult life are the one to f*ck it all up? There is a brand new, state of the art, lab in my home city of Dundee which is being earmarked to be one of the two 'centralised' forensic labs, so that's not a bad alternative to Edinburgh.
Fingers crossed...
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