• Question: Why did you choose your job?

    Asked by bellk19 to Selen, Simon, Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 14 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-224980, anon-224916.
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      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 14 Nov 2019: last edited 14 Nov 2019 10:02 pm

      Because I get to be nosy! Working in a hospital means I help people to get an answer to what is wrong with them – and that’s a BIG thing to a patient who is ill. Second, when I work with students, I can help them develop into the person they want to be and, in the future, have played some part in the good they will go on to do..

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      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 17 Nov 2019:

      I am a theoretical physicist and I choose my job based on those two words. Being a physicist means I can explore new things as a job. Say my topic is Ganymede, every day I go into work I can learn new things about it. What is it like to live there? How does it behave? Can we use this knowledge to help us at Earth? Many things about Ganymede are not currently known by anyone, and the challenge of finding the first answer is very rewarding. As for the theoretical part, I have always been bad with my hand which means lab works are not pleasant for me. Being a theoretician means I can work with just maths and computer, both of which I am much better at!

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      Natalie Fowler answered on 22 Nov 2019:

      I found out that my job existed from somebody I was working for. I didn’t know that there was so many different scientific jobs out there! I had done a science based degree (biomedical science) and I knew I enjoyed helping patients. I just happened to hear about it and knew it sounded like the place for me! I liked the thought of progressing further with my academic studies by doing a master’s and it involved the things I love the most; excitement, complexity, challenge and reward.

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