Question: How would you react if you were fired?

Matthew Lee answered on 12 Jun 2017:

I would go to Tesco and buy loads and loads of chocolate. We are talking like 5kg worth of chocolate at least! Then I would go home, put Lord of The Rings or Harry Potter on and watch films until I had eaten all of the chocolate. Then I would wake up the next day and look for a new job because it’s not the end of the world and it could be worse….i could have died.

Also something important to know about science which Adele has mentioned is that a lot of science jobs (especially in Universities) are fixed term. This means you are employed for 1 year or 2 years at a time and then the money is all gone and you need to find a new job. It’s actually one of the only concerns I have about working in academia, is that job security just isn’t really a thing until you become a lecturer. So for thie first 10ish years a lot of people work on fixed term contracts until they get a permanent position. Some people never get permanent positions and they always work on fixed term contracts but luckily they get grants from places like cancer research uk that mean they can extend their job for another few years.