• Question: Why did you chose this job?

    Asked by here1scan on 24 Sep 2025. This question was also asked by menu1scan, days1scan, gars1scan, such1scan, push1scan, keep1scan, mart534smew2, yaws534dote63.
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      Dave Baker answered on 24 Sep 2025:

      It chose me, all by luck and chance.

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      John Easton answered on 24 Sep 2025:

      I spent my time at university studying Chemistry but I got to a point that I knew I didn’t want to do Chemistry any more. I’d liked writing software to model chemical processes while studying, so looking at IT seemed to be the next logical place to look.

      I think the key learning point from all this is that you can ALWAYS change your mind about something. You are not forced to continue doing something just because you wanted to in the past but have now changed your mind.

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      Rachel Edwards answered on 26 Sep 2025:

      Hello! I’m a physicist and I work at a university. I do teaching and research. I enjoyed physics when I studied it at school and at university, and I’ve not got bored of it yet. I’ve been really lucky that jobs came available at the right time and place. So I didn’t choose it really, I just kept doing things I enjoyed.

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      Gabrielle Baumberg answered on 30 Sep 2025:

      It was the first job that accepted me after university – and it actually took me in a very different direction than I was planning. I was thinking of being a research assistant for a year and then returning to academia for a PhD, but then this Bioinformatics job came along and suddenly I am a data scientist with another Masters!

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      Allyson McIntyre answered on 29 Oct 2025:

      I loved maths, physics & chemistry at school. I chose the Chemistry option as I felt it had a wider set of career opportunities after my degree. I was very fortunate to apply and awarded a small support bursary while at uni from a top Pharmaceutical firm and as they say the rest is history. I continued by undergraduate and PhD, working for the company during my undergrad and then returning there when I completed my studies. I have however, swapped roles within the company, so i started as a lab scientist, then automation scientist and now i am more aligned to data and digital sciences – supporting those lab scientists.

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