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I had an interview on Wednesday, the first one in 15 years......I was very nervous. It's just a contract job as I don't really want to work full time again as I'm still sort of developing properties but just not as full on with the current climate.

Just had a phone call to say I got the job. :D I'm going to be making snake anti-venom, bit of a change.

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Congratulations. :D

 

How do you make that then? :D

 

I could tell you but I don't think you would really want to know as part of the process is not very nice but essential to the production of most medicines that are used to fight something like, snake bites and cancer etc. (They also make chemotherapy drugs there as well).

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I had an interview on Wednesday, the first one in 15 years......I was very nervous. It's just a contract job as I don't really want to work full time again as I'm still sort of developing properties but just not as full on with the current climate.

Just had a phone call to say I got the job. :D I'm going to be making snake anti-venom, bit of a change.

 

Congratulations. Snake venom? What country you in? .... Australia? We only have one potentially venoumous snake in the UK? The Adder. Are there anymore vacancies? :) sounds like a job made in Heaven. I could do that. Is it 9-5?

 

Seriously, all the best mate x

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I had an interview on Wednesday, the first one in 15 years......I was very nervous. It's just a contract job as I don't really want to work full time again as I'm still sort of developing properties but just not as full on with the current climate.

Just had a phone call to say I got the job. :D I'm going to be making snake anti-venom, bit of a change.

 

Congratulations. Snake venom? What country you in? .... Australia? We only have one potentially venoumous snake in the UK? The Adder. Are there anymore vacancies? :) sounds like a job made in Heaven. I could do that. Is it 9-5?

 

Seriously, all the best mate x

 

 

It's for rattlesnakes, copperheads and cotton mouths, so for the USA market. They do make one for adders but its still under trial at the moment. It takes about 2 months to produce so its quite along process. Not 9-5 unfortunately its 7-7, 4 days on 4 days off.

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I think you win the most unusual job on Omlet forum - or do you? Anyone else have an unusual job?

 

I really would like to know how anti venom is made, what's it made out of?

 

How did you end up becoming it?

 

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I think it was the chickens that got me the job. When I went in the room there were three people, they introduced themselves then said, before we start the interview we have to ask you about chickens. You're the only person who has put chickens as their interest. It was a good ice breaker and it turned out that the brother of one of them breeds chickens. I didn't think I would get the job as I have a problem whereby I can't lie at all, so when they said why do you want to work for us I said I don't really I just need a short term job. They said oh! so what would you rather do? I said I'd like to be a masseuse for the Welsh rugby team but that's not going to happen so here I am.

They asked me what my weeknesses were and I said that I think I suffer a bit from OCD as I like everything organised and I appproach everything methodically and have to have everything listed and co-ordinated. Seems thats the type of thing they need to follow the strict medical procedures involved. Guess I just got lucky.

 

If you really want to know how its made then just google antivenom, but please don't give me a hard time about it, its how all of these related drugs are created and its not an experiment so doesn't cause any distress. It's not a part of the process I like but it is necessary and it is fortunately done in another country due to foot and mouth over here.

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It seems a bit daft all this not saying stuff. :D I find it hard to believe that in a life or death situation, which is what this product is for, there are many people who would refuse the anti-venom on account of what I am presuming is a bit of animal testing of some sort. I can't find anything about horses! It sounds like a very worthwhile job :D . It's not exactly testing mascara on monkeys :? .

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No I don't have to do any of that, that part is done in Australia as they only use sheep and because of the chance of foot and mouth over here they are not allowed to do it. We do all the filtering when the antibodies the sheep generate come back. Its a very long process out of every 600 litres made you only end up with 45 litres of usable product.

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