• Question: what was your work before beign a scientist?

    Asked by fabgurlb6 to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I never had any other jobs (oher than working in a pasta factory during University vacations and I hated it so much I worked hard enough to mean that I never had to go back there!)

    • Photo: Dalya Soond

      Dalya Soond answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Oh I did a lot of childcare as a teenager -it was the only job my parents let me have.
      I have taught school and done a lot of private tutoring.
      And I worked one summer in uni in a bakery. That was the best job EVER.
      Other than that, it’s mainly been research.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      I have had a lot of part time job along my studies! I started working when I was 14! Here is a list of all the jobs I have ever had:

      Waitress in a Golf Club
      Assistant in a chinese take-away
      Shop Assistant in Happit (old lady clothes shop)
      Shop Assistant in Argos
      Waitress/cleaner in a 4* B&B
      Leafleter
      Cleaner for a private landlord
      Shop Assistant in Sainsburys

      And I also got paid to do some Psycology experiments once!

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Most of my work has been computing/technology-related, but before I went to university I worked in a bakery (my first job when I was 15!) and I also worked at a sports centre in Oxford, coaching and as a duty manager.

    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Before I finished school and university, I used to work in industrial construction. My summer and weekend jobs would be as a welder or scaffolder or labourer. It was hard work, but I learned a bit and I guess it has helped me with building telescopes.

      Once I got to university, I started getting summer jobs in astronomy as well. Then, when I left university I stopped doing part time construction work altogether and concentrated on my main job in science.

      Curiously, these days I’m doing construction work again… but this time is not factories and complexes, but telescopes.

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