Hello there!
I do a lot of reading in this forum, but up to this point I have never joined. This is a fantastic community that I hope I can contribute to and get helped as well.
I am currently studying to be a biomedical equipment technician at Durham Technical Community College in NC. The program is basically an electronics-based program with biomedical equipment applications. The field is of course electronics at its core, but you need to be comfortable with mechanical things as well as IT networking nowadays. I have an mechanical engineering background, so I am good with this. I also took a few networking classes and I really like them.
I wanted to be in a field that helped people, so I figured that healthcare was not going anywhere and this field is in high demand due to may existing technician retiring and not being replaced. Apparently, young people are not interested in the vocational fields anymore.
Anyhow, I want to be better at electronics because it is not as intuitive to me as mechanical things. I am just starting to build my collection of equipment. I have a Fluke 189 that I purchased for about $50 at a pawn shop (they did not know what they were selling, fortunately for me). I also have a Blue ESR meter. I am looking at getting a scope next.
Work wise, I am working part-time at a veterinary hospital while finishing school. All the equipment used on humans are used on animals. I will graduate at the end of the summer this year, and will likely be employed by a hospital repairing and maintaining their biomedical equipment.