I wanted to major in medical lab technology but like you didn’t have the academic horsepower. I did however manage to get a liberal arts degree.
Worked various jobs over the years and have done ok. Finally 5 years ago I decided to take an algebra class to console myself having blamed my lack of math skills for not doing well 30 years earlier.
To date I have earned 39 undergrad credits at my community college and this semester I’m taking organic chemistry 1. Next semester ochem 2, then in the summer English comp 2 and finally in the fall semester I’m taking college trig. That will get me a Biology AS degree which is basically all of the pre-requsite classes I would need to do the medical lab internship.
I’m not going to do that but I just wanted to prove to myself that I could. It was a black cloud hanging over my head all those years.
I dropped out of Berkeley about halfway through. Rather than be drafted I signed up for what turned out to be satellite communications repairman. When I got out I didn't even know what an "electronic technician" was.
It turned out I was one. I eventually started taking classes at the local junior college and then engineering courses sponsored by my employer. I worked my way through all the technician ranks to associate engineer and then engineer. Finally I got a rare chance to go back to school and earned an MS in Electrical Engineering. Before retiring I spent ten years as an engineering manager.
All this makes me predict that you WILL continue on to work in medical lab technology. I know a young lady that recently began working in that field and she seems extremely happy in it. With all of us aging baby-boomers needing medical care, she has tremendous job security.