• Question: if you didn't want to be a scientist any more what other jobs could you do with your qualification?

    Asked by 396mede29 to Greg, Jen, Laura, Mobeen, Paul on 7 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by 664mede29, Charl_020304.
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      Greg Melia answered on 7 Mar 2016:


      Now that’s a really good question. When choosing a career, it’s always important to consider what you could do if things went wrong.

      I’ve kind of shifted career a bit, as I used to work in the NHS, applying science to patients, but now I’m more in research and development. If I didn’t want to work in science at all, I could work in IT or in manufacturing engineering. Lots of physicists also go to work in finance, as the same high performance computing skills that are used to model atomic reactions are also good for modelling markets and cash flow.

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      Laura Haworth answered on 7 Mar 2016:


      A degree in biomedical scientist allows you to go into so many different careers that may not necessarily be in science as a science degree helps demonstrate so many different skills that other employees may be looking for. Some people who graduated with myself have gone on to study medicine, gone into business or marketing and finance. A degree doesn’t necessarily have to restrict you to one profession.

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      Paul O'Mahoney answered on 7 Mar 2016:


      There are so many jobs you could do with a science or engineering degree – Greg and Laura have already pointed out quite a few. Many people go on to do teaching too, which is one of the things I might want to do if I wasn’t a scientist

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      Mobeen Ali answered on 10 Mar 2016:


      Having a science degree shows that you have have lots of different skills like problem solving, good numeracy and the ability to communicate complex ideas simply. These skills are useful for a very wide range of jobs from accounting, finance and consultancy to programming, engineering and technology.

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      Jen Lowe answered on 10 Mar 2016:


      I would be sad if I couldn’t do science, but I think with my practical and math skills there are probably other fields I could work in. It might be at a more junior level as I wouldn’t have experience though. I could do a teaching qualification and be a physics or maths or science teacher.

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