• Question: Do you think you will always stay with your current job?

    Asked by anon-240657 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 9 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Ben Cropper

      Ben Cropper answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      I don’t know! I’m on a degree that’s trying to get me into industry after I finish. I have a six month placement coming up at a data science company – I’ll see where I stand after that.

    • Photo: Elspeth Keating

      Elspeth Keating answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      I love my job, it offers me variety, and I can always learn. I would move for family reasons, or if I was offered a really really cool job somewhere else, but currently I’m not planning on moving for a few more years.

    • Photo: Tom Dally

      Tom Dally answered on 9 Mar 2020: last edited 9 Mar 2020 3:24 pm

      There is a weird phase after you finish your PhD where, if you want to stay in academic research, you usually have to do a couple of short, fixed-term jobs called postdocs (a postdoctoral job) before you can apply to be a full-time researcher. So the job I have currently, where I’m looking at whether we can use weather radar to monitor insects in the atmosphere, is only for the next 2.5 years and then I’ll probably have to look for something else. I do love my job, though, and this is definitely what I want to keep doing.

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