>> My name is Craig Barrow [assumed spelling], and I'm currently retired.
Just finished a 36-year career in the field of toxicology, working in the chemical industry.
Toxicology is a lot like medicine.
A lot of art, a lot of science.
It's an applied science, in the sense that what toxicologists do is attempt to elucidate
and learn about the hazardous natures of the nature of chemicals, drugs and so forth,
and then attempt to put that into the perspective
where they're safeguarding the public's health,
or in the case of the environment, plants and animals.
And it's a profession that goes back to antiquity.
I finished my career in the science policy area, because when you're looking
at the hazardous nature of chemicals, there are also aspects that relate
to policy considerations, so I ended up working in Washington, D.C., for the last 16 years
of my career, in the science policy area interfacing
with especially the Environmental Protection Agency.
So a lot of my day was involved in the interpretation of toxicity information
as it pertained to the chemicals that were of interest
to the company and industry that I worked for.
Well a first job would probably be working for a professor in a university,
helping with their grants, doing research.
In the case of government, maybe similarly, you could be,
for example down in the research tribal park in North Carolina, where there are--
the EPA has their actual research labs.
You could be down there helping the investigators
at the EPA conduct their experiments.
And if you were in industry, you could be in one of the many laboratories
that the chemical industry or the pharmaceutical industry has also working as a technician
for someone who most likely would have a graduate degree working in toxicology.