• Question: how long did it take to become who you are now

    Asked by Owen to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 16 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by #the-mad-scientist.
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      Dawn Lau answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      26 years because that’s how old I am! 😛

      I guess you mean by education. My undergraduate degree was 3 years, then I went to do a Master’s course which was a year long. Then I started my PhD and that lasted for just over 3 years. I took a little break just after my PhD (only about a month) to visit home and go on a trip, but I started my job straight after that and that’s where I am now.

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      Sian Thomas answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      42 years – but that is not what you mean 🙂

      I am not sure that I could do my current job without my previous experience – as I love to learn I get used to using the learning in my next job. So part of my role is to make the links that people who don’t have the breadth of experience might not see. A long winded way of saying my experience fills the gaps!

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      Dan Lewis answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      26 years as well 😀

      For me as I went back to college when I was 18 to study sciences it has taken me 8 years to have completed my education and work where I am.

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      David Robertson answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      My undergraduate degree was 4 years, and my PhD took another 4 years. After that I worked in Glasgow for about 6 years, then Germany for a year and a half before coming back to Glasgow.

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      Christie Waddington answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      This sounds like this should be a really philosophical question! I’m 29years old now but have had a very interesting life!

      I took A levels, then spent a year in Budapest training with the Hungarian national fencing team before starting University. I took a classics degree for 3 years, won the Commonwealth Games, then took an A level in Biology to retrain as a Scientist. I took a Human Genetics degree for 3 years with 1 year working in industry, Masters degree in Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology for 1 year and I am now half way through a 3 year PhD in Mitochondrial Genetics (I will graduate with my PhD in September 2017!).

      In science, from degree to end of the PhD will be 7 years, but I just happened to take a gap year, year out to take Biology A level and a year out to work in industry in between!

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