FORENSIC SCIENCE and subjects

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by cyberlolz

im only in year 10/11. i realyy need help ur sayn i hav to get work exp. with forensic scientists b4 doing it after the degree?

You can gain the experience along the way. A seemingly mundane internship can earn you insights. You don't have to do your internship at a crime lab, it could be a uni chem lab or a bio lab, etc. I highly recommend that you do what interests you most.

[cyberlolz]

cool but this can all be arranged when i am at uni
its too early now yeah?

[Monomer]

Originally Posted by cyberlolz

cool but this can all be arranged when i am at uni
its too early now yeah?

You can arrange to do some work experience now. Someone at your school should be doing this so speak to your teachers. When you get to uni then you can arrange to do more work experience, either at the same places you've been to or talk to lecturers or the course coordinator to see what they can recommend.

[cyberlolz]

weelll im trying out with an architect now becasue i am only recently beginign to think about forensic science. So what can i do a bout extra experience - but with no experience in hand already.
i'd be almost 30 to reach a computer forensic bythe way and ill be having salary less than half my dads wages and he works for a tyre factory how do i survive with 30-40 k after a bachelors degree during the 2 years in the work force... i think im going to cry
if i do honours will i also have an increased salary or is that jus to get a phd? (which there is none at the moment )

i still do not get it - do i do a masters for forensic science or computer forensic??? if i had a choice which would be a better choice.

[Monomer]

Originally Posted by cyberlolz

weelll im trying out with an architect now becasue i am only recently beginign to think about forensic science. So what can i do a bout extra experience - but with no experience in hand already.
i'd be almost 30 to reach a computer forensic bythe way and ill be having salary less than half my dads wages and he works for a tyre factory how do i survive with 30-40 k after a bachelors degree during the 2 years in the work force... i think im going to cry
if i do honours will i also have an increased salary or is that jus to get a phd? (which there is none at the moment )

i still do not get it - do i do a masters for forensic science or computer forensic??? if i had a choice which would be a better choice.

What you do about the forensic science work experience is talk to your teachers about it. High school students are supposed to do work experience in years 10 and 11 so either the school organises the work experience or they help you to do it.

You will get paid a little bit more if you have an honours degree compared to an ordinary degree (without honours). Remember that you'll finish your honours degree when you're in your early 20s and then you have to work for a couple of years anyway before you can do the grad cert. By that time you'll probably find that base salaries have risen to keep up with cpi. I really don't know exactly what forensic scientists get paid. Perhaps contact the NIFS to find out what they currently get paid. At my work an honours graduate would be paid roughly $48,000 a year, so that might be what you're looking at. You will survive on your salary by adjusting your lifestyle to match it.

You do a masters in whatever interests you. I suggest that you don't make that decision now, but you wait until you're well into your course and you've had exposure to the various areas of forensic science. Plenty of people change their career direction while they're at uni because they are exposed to areas they hadn't considered, or thought they wouldn't enjoy something but then realised that they did.

Once again, pick a career that actually interests you and that will suit your personality and abilities. If you're worried about money then do engineering because graduate engineers can get paid about $60,000 a year.

[Racoon]

I just looked at the learning Japanese part in the first post.


Not impossible, but Improbable

[cyberlolz]

So of course if hounours get paid 48 thousand then of course graduate cert will be paid more and masters will be paid even more.. (common sense)
hmmm...
by the way whats your job

[Monomer]

Originally Posted by cyberlolz

So of course if hounours get paid 48 thousand then of course graduate cert will be paid more and masters will be paid even more.. (common sense)
hmmm...
by the way whats your job

That's right. The more qualifications and experience you have the more you can offer your employer and they more they'll pay you.

I am a laboratory technician working in a research laboratory.

[cyberlolz]

hi again, how are you.
Can someone tell me the diffrent specialisations and decriptions of the forensic team (forensic science)and the diffrent sections a forensic lab has for example i kno they all are requried to do Crime Scene investegations(are they?). i kno one section is DNA investegations and another mite be computer? wat else are there?

Also please refer to 1st page 1st post about my subects i realised it is very efficient for a forensic scientist to hav physics so wat shood i replace for physics
thank you

ALSO IF i wanted to be a forensic science that goes to crime scenes , collects evidence, look at the scene then recreate wat happened in my mind and go bak to the lab and investigate the evidece that i ahv already collected formt he scene with chemicals and use computers to retrieve physics results about which way blood will spurt for example. , << what would you call this type of forensic

[Monomer]

I found a list at this site:
Fields of Forensic Science

And some more here:
Hot topic: Forensics (State Library of Queensland)


I'm not sure what the second part of your question means. If it's efficient for a forensic scientist to have physics why would you want to replace it?