• Question: do you want to do that all your life?

    Asked by manooooon to Sally, Rob, Matt, Marikka, Ceri on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I don’t know. When I finish my PhD in about a years time I will be considering many different jobs. My future may be decided by who wants to give me a job instead of my burning desire to do a specific job.

    • Photo: Marikka Beecroft

      Marikka Beecroft answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I would like to continue doing science as a career but until I finish my PhD I don’t have any set plans. It all depends on what I want to do after, who would like to hire me and if I still have an interest in science when my PhD is over. Some people after their PhD quit science and do completely different things.

    • Photo: Sally Cutler

      Sally Cutler answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Early on I did not know what microbiology was, but loved biology. Later I discovered my passion for microbes and their interactions with us and have never looked back.

    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I don’t know. I’m only a very junior scientist at the moment, so it will depend on where I can get a job. But I would like to keep making the world a better place, and Public Health seems a good way to do that.

    • Photo: Matt Bilton

      Matt Bilton answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Maybe, but who knows what I’ll end up doing! Also thinking about becoming a doctor (the sort that treats people…), or maybe I’ll get a job that lets me tell other people how great science is (it’s really great). For now I love what I’m doing – every day I get to ask a question and then try to answer it. Using deadly bacteria…and robotic machines with lasers. If I get a different job it’s got to include deadly bacteria and/or robotic machines with lasers.

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