I was a manager for AT&T, fast-tracked for middle-management, and a volunteer fireman/EMT in my spare time. Then my genetic heart disease reared its ugly head, and everything changed. I am now disabled, and unable to work. What if I had known about this heart problem before I started with AT&T or the fire department? I am positive I would have had a vastly different, much lower paying job, and probably no medical or disability benefits. Fortunately, I have great benefits. However, if genetic testing had been done by my employer, they would have seen this, and probably not hired or promoted me. That is life now. Gattaca shows the probable future outcome of current genetic testing. Let us be very careful of the road we are now traveling down.
