• Question: Would you consider a change in career or are you happy with your current work/research?

    Asked by anon-240326 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 16 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Ben Cropper

      Ben Cropper answered on 16 Mar 2020:

      I’d love to continue in science and am happy where I am, but there are more PhD students around than there are postdoctoral research positions (the thing you get after a PhD), and I’m very happy living in Manchester and don’t really want to move. If a place opens up here as I’m finishing, that would be brilliant, but that might not happen, in which case I may look for a different career (probably doing some science or computer related for a company). A scientific background helps with getting that kind of job. Having said that, I am really glad I’ve done this much science and would strongly encourage other people to do the same!

    • Photo: Tom Dally

      Tom Dally answered on 17 Mar 2020:

      I am really happy with my career choices! I might move around research topics within my area, but I can’t see myself ever wanting to not be doing what I’m doing now.

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