• Question: Was coming into your field of work easy?

    Asked by anon-238468 to James, Hannah, Claire, Chris, binuraj, Alice on 11 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Binuraj Menon

      Binuraj Menon answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Not really. The science always motivate you, so it is easy to make a decision. To establish in your work; perseverance is the key. To receive specific senior scientific jobs in academia (like lecturer, Assit or Associate professor etc) it may take years to reach that destination.

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      Hannah Blyth answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Hello Ellie, thank you for the question! 🙂 The path to where I am now was full of twists and turns because I had so many interests that took a long time to narrow down. I am glad that I can call myself a PhD student with a focus on Plant Pathology now, and I look forward to the challenges the next stage of my career will throw my way.

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      Chris Carlton answered on 24 Mar 2020:

      To some extent – I worked in research funding in a different area and used these skills to transition to working in physics. I interviewed for the job 3 times so it wasn’t easy to get the job but this paled to the difficulty of trying to follow the scientific discussions once I did!

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