• Question: When did you decide what job you wanted to do?

    Asked by 558cara48 to Devon, Heather, Krishma, Laura, Richard, Thomas, Tim.S on 22 Jan 2018.
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      anon answered on 22 Jan 2018:

      I didn’t learn about biostatistics (what I did for my masters degree and PhD) until I was in the final year of undergraduate studying maths. I didn’t learn about the sort of mathematical modelling of infectious disease transmission until I was doing my masters degree.

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      Richard Unwin answered on 22 Jan 2018:

      I’m not sure I have yet! Seriously it wasn’t until I was 21 or 22 and finishing Uni that I really thought that doing research science was a good career for me.

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      anon answered on 22 Jan 2018:

      Same as the others here: in the final year of my undergraduate degree.

      Much agony went into it. If I focused on what I wanted to do in the next few years instead of trying to decide what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, the process would have probably gone much smoother.

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      Tim Stephens answered on 23 Jan 2018:

      I decided about my current job just before I applied for it. The types of jobs that I’ve had have been because that’s what I was interested in, and I realised that during my final year of university.

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      anon answered on 29 Jan 2018:

      It kept changing! When I chose my GCSEs and A-levels I was *sure* I was going to be a marine biologist. When I started my degree I was still sure. And when I started my PhD I moved more towards animal (specifically fish) behaviour. Two years on, I was very sure I wanted *nothing* to do with research anymore! It took me 6 months of doing something entirely unrelated before I fell into my current career. I know now that I want to stay in science communication of some sort or another – so it’s taken about 25 years (!) to figure it out.

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