The lowest pay and the worst supervisors, but you're saving lives!
Pros
The health insurance was the best and cheapest I ever had! I loved knowing what I was doing was really saving lives. I worked with some of the nicest kindest people.
Cons
The supervisors in the lab were horrible! You were not allowed to sit even though you were standing at a machine for hours at a time. They also didn't allow MP3 players, even though it wasn't a sterile environment or it would create an unsafe environment. Correction: unless you were the weekend day shift, then you could do whatever you wanted. I once saw a supervisor make a 7 month pregnant third shift worker stand up, who had been sitting since she had been standing for hours and walk past the weekend shift worker (who had been there a short time) who was sitting with her feet propped up on the counter listening to a MP3 player. If you did your job well and worked night shift, you could never be promoted or get another job in the company since you were too valuable to them and they couldn't staff 3rd shift. The pay was ridiculously low! No raises in 2.5 years! No wonder so many people left for Dendreon!