Great description. I was a laboratory technologist as well before I went back to school.
One of the many brilliant mentors I've had during my career "only" had laboratory tech training. He also could point to patents and products in the company catalog that produced hundreds of millions in revenue. Today he picks and chooses consulting gigs that pull in $500k per year while working part time.
So don't mind Finding, it's a paralegal pretending to be an attorney and projection comes naturally to it.