• Question: If you wanted to do other jobs what made you chose the one you do now?

    Asked by anon-360024 on 27 Mar 2023.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 27 Mar 2023:

      I never wanted to do another job. But what basically made me become an academic scientist was (i) I found out work as a laboratory technical in local refinery when I was a student that I didn’t like being to what to do and doing the same thing day after day and (ii) that really the only job open to be where I set my own path was to become an academic scientist.

    • Photo: Nathalie Oguntona

      Nathalie Oguntona answered on 27 Mar 2023:

      I have done different jobs to what I do now, following my interest.

    • Photo: Sarah Lyons

      Sarah Lyons answered on 28 Mar 2023:

      I thought about going into nutrition but I didn’t like the idea of a desk job. Chemistry and working in the lab sounded really exciting in comparison to nutrition so I went into chemistry. Ironically, I now primarily work at a desk (but still within chemistry) and I really enjoy it. A real lesson in not judging something you don’t know.

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