• Question: what jobs include science?

    Asked by erinnngod to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 13 Mar 2014.
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      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Oh so many many jobs. So MANY.

      You could be an analyst like CSI identifying things, or a medical researcher or a vet or ypu could work in manufacturing or pharmaceuticals or oil. You could be an accountant or a science communicator or clean up radioactive waste or sell machinery. You coyld do something not cience related that requires analytical skills or you could become a patent lawyer whih is themost highly paying job I have ever heard about. SO MANY JOBS the mind boggles!

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      Kieren Bradley answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      There are plenty of research scientist jobs, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that each of those jobs is the same. You could work for a large electronics company designing flat screen TVs which means you need to know all about electronics and LEDs and things like that. But you could then get a research job for a drugs company where you need to know a lot of chemistry to make new drugs.

      I think an interesting place that needs science is the movie industry. If you want to make special effects you might need the right chemicals to make rubber masks or the right gasses to produce coloured flames and all sorts of other things.

      The computer game industry relies on a lot of physics, you want to design a racing car game you need to understand friction and aerodynamics and the forces that occur when you go round corners. To do 3D graphics you need to understand how light bounces off different materials to make them look realistic. I know that Pixar really struggle with how hair flows around when you move your head, meaning lots of science based computer models were required to fix it.

      A lot of economics (bankers, accountants) needs a scientific mind, to analyse a lot of patterns and work out where the best place to make money is going to be.

      Sports involves lots of science, making new racquets, playing surfaces training regimes and body monitoring devices.

      I’m sure there are an awful lot more jobs that can be done if you are good at science, I imagine you could think of plenty that would be fun jobs that also need a bit of science.

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      Nicola Rogers answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Science jobs off the top of my head:

      forensics, analytical scientist, toxicologist, environmental scientist, engineer, research and development for a drugs company, or a technology company, researcher in a university, clinical researcher….

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      Kate Nicholson answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      So many I will not be able to think of them all.
      Media and mythbusters, auidiobook promotion, writing and journalism, government advisory panel, manufacturing, cosmetics, historical conservation and those are just the ones that I know link to chemistry. Other jobs such as accountancy although not science use the same skill set so a lot of chemists move into this.
      Then the more ususal suspects of food industry, farming and agriculture, zoology, vetinary and medicine, botany, astrophysics, equipment building, programming……the list goes on and on

Comments

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    erinnngod commented on :

    @rowenafletcherwood I would like to be a doctor

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    Rowena commented on :

    You can be a doctor by studying medicine for 6 years or studying another subject to degree level and then afterwards doing a medical conversion of 4 years (this takes longer but you can start with a different subject, not even necessarily a science). You can also do medicine-related degrees like neuroscience or genetics or biological sciences.