• Question: how many years have you worked for

    Asked by anon-348948 on 2 Mar 2023. This question was also asked by anon-350276, anon-350287, anon-354294, anon-357615, anon-359537, anon-361220.
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      Maria Price answered on 2 Mar 2023: last edited 3 Mar 2023 10:28 am

      I have been at university for 5 and a half years, including the PhD that I am doing now. Before that, I worked in a pharmacy from 16-18, then I have had a part time job for the whole of my degree that I still do occasionally now, and I worked in a pub for a year during a placement year I did for my degree.

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      Simone Girdham answered on 2 Mar 2023:

      I am very old! I first started working at 17. I had to work so I could afford to go to university and I have continued every since.

      Quite often I work more than one job at the same time because I get bored and lots of things interest me.

      This is called a career portfolio 😜

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      John Clark-Corrigall answered on 2 Mar 2023:

      I’ve done little short term odd jobs since 17, but got a proper part time job as a lifeguard at 19, where I’d worked throughout my degree up until the pandemic. As a student/scientist at university I’ve done nearly 7 and a half years. Which feels mad to think about. The young people I work with started at secondary school when I started my degree!!

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      Emma Agnew answered on 3 Mar 2023:

      I started work as a lifeguard at 17 before I went to University. At University I had a few part time jobs including being a barmaid. I then ‘properly’ started working after the 8 years I did at University (4 years for my main degree, 1 years Masters course and a 3 year PhD to become a science Doctor), so I have been working in science for 5 years now and have loved every minute of it.

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      Benjamin Foster answered on 3 Mar 2023:

      I’ve done odd jobs since I was a teenager in cafes and, later on as a student at university, in pubs. I was studying for a long time, as an undergraduate, Master’s student, then PhD student, collectively taking about 8 years! I have been an employed research scientist since mid-2017 in Germany and continued in the UK to the present day.

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      Silvia Mazzotta answered on 10 Mar 2023:

      I have been working for a very long time now, not always in science. When I was a student, I used to work as a waitress and also offered tuition in biology, Italian and math to other students.
      I started working in science in 2012, so around 11 years ago. In fact, technically I was doing a PhD at the time, studying the development of the human heart, but this always felt like a job, and I like to call it my first science job. In 2016 I graduated from my PhD and I did a post doc, so basically I worked as a scientist in a laboratory that studied the development of some of our blood vessels. In 2017 I started working as a scientist in a company, and there I helped creating therapies for cancer. In 2019 I moved back to Uni and started teaching Developmental biology. Unfortunately I lost my teaching job in 2020, so I worked for two years as an administrator in the patient partner team in the medical school at University; basically, I helped recruiting fake patients for the medical students, so that they could practice how to talk to patients. I also sometimes helped myself as a patient, it was great fun. Last August I got my teaching job back and I have been doing that even since!

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      Rosie Spencer answered on 22 Mar 2023:

      I was at university for 8 years and then I have been in my current job for about 5 months now.

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      Louisse Mirabueno answered on 22 Mar 2023: last edited 22 Mar 2023 4:18 pm

      I started working when I was 18 (I am 30 now). I didn’t really know what I wanted to study, so I did a few jobs here and there before starting university. I also worked throughout uni, during summer breaks and straight away after finishing my postgraduate degree. So I guess technically I’ve been working for 18 years now! But in the field of science I have worked for 5 years.

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