>> It's a challenge and it's a challenge every day.
So I certainly -- the part I like the best is probably dealing with people.
I seem to enjoy dealing with people, whether that's regulators.
We are constantly being audited by third parties, states, the EPA.
Those type things.
And those entities will come in and they're constantly, you know,
reviewing our standard operating procedures
to make sure we're compliant with all laws and regulations.
So I enjoy dealing with people.
I also enjoy dealing with lab staff.
So I certainly I think I'm more of a people person.
So daily challenges are instrumentation.
We're running very, you know, highly technical type of instrumentation
and they're very finicky and they have problems.
You know, it's not like you'll come in any day
and things will work out exactly as you expected.
Every day you run into some kind of problem and that's [inaudible] manage
and that's what you have to deal with, things.
You know, if it was really that easy and it was really that simple
and everything worked the first time, [inaudible] do it with robots
and not necessarily people but really the people are there.
They are the chemistry.
They're the ones operating the system and doing the test.
You know, we are not a research and development facility.
We are primarily a product testing laboratory.
Clients will give us samples and say hey, analyze this sample and then provide back
to me the data and then they use that data to act upon.