Also called: Anatomical Preparation Technician
Preserves real human and animal bodies with plastic so they can be studied forever.
Replaces water and fat in a specimen with silicone over months, then carefully positions it, like the bodies in traveling Body Worlds exhibits or university teaching collections.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in biology helpful; on-the-job training.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Biology.
Growing about average. Tiny niche.
Low risk for 10 years. Months of careful hand dissection and posing specimens is craft work that machines and AI can't do.
Classes: Biology, Anatomy and physiology, Art or sculpture.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-4021.
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