• Question: What age were you when you discovered this job as your carrer path?

    Asked by anon-193439 to Emma, Carl, Morwenna, Jamal, Heidi on 6 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-193451.
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      Emma Crawford answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I discovered working in the pharmaceutical industry on my placement year at university, so I was turning 21! I’m now 27 and have been working in the industry for 4 years. Before I went to uni I really wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, but chose to study Maths as I liked it. I chose my university specifically so I could do a placement year hoping that some work experience would help give me some direction in my career path, and it did! 🙂

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      Carl Heron answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      I wanted to be an archaeologist from a very early age….probably when I was still in primary school. I was fascinated by the remains of past civilisations and a few trips to museums (including the world-famous Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum in 1972……yes, it was that long ago…..cemented that intention).

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      Heidi Gardner answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Not until I was about 22! I knew I wanted to work in clinical trials before that, but I didn’t actually have any idea that being a methodologist was a job at all until I met my current boss. If you do a science degree at uni then you have quite a lot of options with what you can do next, so you don’t always need to know exactly what you want to do after that 🙂

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