• Question: What job would you do if you didn't do your job

    Asked by GeorgeP on 19 Nov 2025. This question was also asked by Jude.
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      Sinead Eley answered on 19 Nov 2025:

      Good question! I’d say something still working with programming and data – I’m not sure I’d want to be completely parted with my laptop. I’d probably be a data scientist, but if it had to be something totally removed, probably a teacher? I love getting to teach and find it one of the most rewarding points of my week.

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      CIARA HURLEY answered on 21 Nov 2025:

      That’s a good question for me because my first career choice didn’t go as planned. I ended up switching from being a Clinical Scientist (just a scientist working in a hospital on stuff) to being an Instrumentation & Controls Engineer (so I work on control systems in industry, in an office or on-site). I was lucky because choosing Physics is very maths/chemistry heavy as well, meaning I had a lot of options with what I wanted to do with my subjects.

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      Melissa Upjohn answered on 21 Nov 2025:

      I had a ‘false start’ in my career – after doing Maths, French and German A Levels I did a degree in Banking & International Finance and spent 10 years working in corporate financial markets, first for an American Investment Bank, then for a well know financial risk Management Consultancy and finally for a large commercial company in the their Treasury (Financial Risk Management) department. Eventually I admitted to myself that I didn’t enjoy this work so I went back to school to do A Levels in Biology and Chemistry so that I could apply to do a Veterinary Medicine degree. I’ve not looked back since!

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