• Question: what alternate career path would you choose

    Asked by anon-328813 on 10 Jun 2022.
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      Ryan Devlin answered on 10 Jun 2022:

      If you are talking about a career path alternative to science, then I would have done history, something that I find absolutely fascinating.

      If you are talking about a career path within science, so an alterative to cancer immunology, then I am not sure. The good thing about a lot of science, lab work and a PhD, is that you aren’t forced to continue doing the same subject. You gain a tremendous number of transferable skills that you can apply to many questions, and many subjects. So, instead of your PhD/research topic being a decision that locks every other career path, it is instead a key that opens up many other doors to you both within and outside of science.

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      Rachel Harris answered on 10 Jun 2022:

      I thought about becoming a doctor, but I did some work experience and found out I was more interested in biology than patient care.

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      Karin Purshouse answered on 10 Jun 2022:

      I sometimes think I would have really enjoyed engineering, as there are lots of different branches of it and you can work in so many different areas!

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      Chelsea Gerada answered on 13 Jun 2022:

      I really enjoy cooking/baking so I think I would be tempted to run my own bakery business doing customisable cakes for events

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      Maria Peiris Pages answered on 13 Jun 2022:

      Teaching! 🙂

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      Seung Hyun Lee answered on 20 Jun 2022:

      There are many alternative career paths in science. Being an independent researcher opens up many paths as Ryan explained nicely above.

      If I choose an alternative career apart from ones in science in medicine, I would choose to study deep learning and computer vision (how computer gets meaningful information from images) in depth.

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