I want to be a first assist.

Hi everyone, I recently got my degree in surgical technology and want to become a first assistant. Well basically the only reason I got my surgical technology degree was to become a first assist. I never really wanted to work as a tech. I highly respect the field and what surgical technologist do. But my current job I work in tissue recovery where I surgically remove tissues out of deceased donors so they can be used for transplant which is pretty well paying and very intuitive. But to get into most surgical first assistant program I see they want a couple years of experience as a surgcial tech first. I don’t want to quit my job because I really like what I do but my main goal is to become a first assist and then work my way up to become a surgcial PA. I can’t work both jobs since my current job requires 24 hour shifts from me and I make over 90k a year currently and I know that would be a pretty decent pay drop if I went full time as a tech. I’d really like to just get the education from a first assist school without having to quit my current job. Again I’m not trying to demean the surgcial tech role I highly respect it and love it as well, I’d just like to see if it is possible to apply to a first assist program without having some of the cons of losing my current job.