• Question: How long did it take you to get to where you are right now?

    Asked by yks.shr to Sajid, Katherine, Jayne, Duncan, anuantony on 6 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Sajid Javed

      Sajid Javed answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      i took the conventional route where i went to sixth form college to university to study a degree in applied biology. there were three years taught and one year was work experience. After my first degree i went on a did PhD which was 3 years of research and 1 year of writing all my experiment up. After i completed my studies i worked for 3 companies for a total of 9 years.

    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      I took an unconventional route, so I went from school to university to study chemistry for four years, which got me a masters degree, then I worked in a shop for two years, but while I did that I also worked as a tutor and started to do a degree part-time, which took six years to get altogether. While I was doing the part-time degree I also went back to another university and did teacher training for a year, then another year and a half of working as a tutor, then three years of working as a teacher, by which time I had finished the part-time degree in physics, and then I applied for my PhD and started that about a year ago, and I’m going to carry on doing it for another two and a half years. In some ways, it’s quite strange to be doing just one thing again.

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