• Question: how did you get into this field

    Asked by user490eta on 13 Jul 2023. This question was also asked by jump490eta, yard490eta, much490fan, ease490dye.
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      Hasinah Mohammed answered on 13 Jul 2023:

      I got into this job by a series of opportunities, that I hadn’t planned for. I wanted to study medicine and become a doctor, but I didn’t do very well in my Chemistry A-level so I didn’t get the place at University. I had the chance to study Biomedical Engineering instead, which was a course I had not heard of before BUT it covered my 2 interests in design and biology so I thought I would give it a go. I really enjoyed my degree, and so went on to study Design for my masters. Following that, I had a call from a recruiter for the company I work for now… and have now made it to be a Project Engineer working on medical/ pharmaceutical production devices.

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      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 13 Jul 2023:

      I was always curious about discovering new things. My mum’s friend’s daughter studied microbiology and I went and asked advice from her and had a look at what she studied. that inspired me to take up this field. I also went on to study biochemistry with that and my PhD is in Microbiology 😀

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      Sophie Shaw answered on 13 Jul 2023:

      My current job involves writing computer code for data analysis, but I started out as a scientist working in a lab. One day, I needed to analyse some data so wrote some code to do this and realised I enjoyed it more (and was much better at it!) than the lab work. I then did some more training before eventually changing jobs.

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      Simon Anderson answered on 19 Jul 2023:

      I initially did a degree in Medical Sciences where I really enjoyed the cardiovascular side of things. Whilst on this degree I happened upon a cardiac physiologist who was involved with a project I undertook. Following this, and I recommend this to you all, I did some work experience at a local hospital which was really informative and helpful. Having decided it was the career for me I was then able to keep my eye open for apprenticeship roles- key here was being patient, I ended up in a temporary job for a year whilst applying for roles and eventually getting the job I still do now 14 years later!

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      Kip Heath answered on 20 Jul 2023:

      I did work experience in an NHS lab in year 13. A month later they sent me an application form in the post and I’ve been in the NHS ever since. 🙂

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      Clare Morrow answered on 24 Jul 2023:

      I joined the RAF as a lab tech – which is now a biomedical scientist. I loved science at school and so knew that i wanted to do something in that area.

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