• Question: Would you ever change your job for anything else

    Asked by anon-185147 to William, Rebecca, Martyna, Callum, Alice, Adam on 5 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Martyna Pastok

      Martyna Pastok answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      You can continue being scientist in different professions… and in different work-places, currently working at university and love it. I think I will always be a scientist as I will be always curious about the world around me. I hope I will be able to do it for living forever. However sometimes you may need to adapt when you need to have a job. But I am optimistic about it 🙂

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      William Glass answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      That’s a really good question. Much like Martyna already said I think that I will always be curious about how the world around me works and to that end I think that adapting as a scientist is important. I’m enjoying what I do at the moment but I’d love to keep challenge myself and try new things, perhaps in a different field to the one I’m currently in. Wherever / whatever I do I’ll be bringing different skills to a problem and always learning from others around me.

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      Callum McHugh answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      A science based qualification is really transferable, which means you can use it to move into a variety of different jobs.

      After my PhD I worked at a University as a researcher and then changed completely to go and work for a company who were based in Switzerland. I then came back to Scotland to work in a University again.

      I really love my job at the moment, but you never know, one day I may fancy a change!!

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      Adam Berlie answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      Maybe! As you grow older, what is important to you changes and as such so do your career aspirations. Being in academia is hard, especially once you leave the nice warm bosom of doing a PhD, so other priorites can come into the picture. However, the physical sciences give you a very good grounding for doing other things in life. There is no shame to studying science but then having a change and going off to do something different! If I was able to get the chance, you know what I’d love to go and do? Classic car restoration; from vintage (around 1900) to 1970s – I think this would be a blast. It would be a new challenge and I’d get to learn something else.

    • Photo: Rebecca Roddan

      Rebecca Roddan answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      Maybe… I think I want to stay in something scientific after my PhD, but I have no idea what really. I think I’d like to stay in research but you never know what opportunities are going to arise.

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