Also called: Ocular Recovery Technician, Certified Eye Bank Technician
Recovers corneas from people who donated their eyes after death and prepares them for transplants that restore sight.
Gets a call that a registered donor has died at a hospital. You drive there, carefully recover the corneas in a sterile procedure and bring them back to the eye bank lab. There you examine them under a microscope and may precut tissue for a surgeon, so a stranger can see again within days.
Estimate; on-call pay adds up.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0.5 years after high school. High school diploma (some college preferred); trained by eye banks, then certified after experience.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Biology.
Growing about average. Steady; corneal transplants are common.
Low risk for 10 years. Recovering and preparing donor tissue is delicate hands-on work.
Age 18+. One way to start: Apply to regional eye banks for recovery technician jobs; they train you
Classes: Biology, Anatomy, Chemistry.
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