• Question: What sorts of careers can you do that involve science?

    Asked by jobibear to Adam, Joanna, Louise S, Louise W, Marcus on 12 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Louise Stanley

      Louise Stanley answered on 12 Nov 2012:

      There are so many options……I am not sure that I could list them all but here are a few suggestions!

      (i) Scientist of which there are so many different types – Researcher in University, working in Pathology labs for healthcare such as the NHS, industry jobs – such as those working on drugs/medicine or even things such as toothpaste, floor cleaner as the components of these require a chemist of some sort to optimise them
      (ii) Journalist in science communication, presenter, documentary maker
      (iii) Doctor (medical)
      (iv) Nurse
      (v) Vet
      (vi) Physiotherapist
      (vii) Engineer
      (viii) Dentist
      (ix) Astranout
      (x) Teacher
      (xi) Lawyer involving science patent law

      There are so many others and this list is be no means complete! HTH 🙂

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      Adam Paige answered on 12 Nov 2012:

      Louise has given a pretty complete answer to this one. But a few other possibilities include:

      i) I have a friend who is involved in science communication where she meets with scientists and discuss their work, and then helps write posters, websites, and brochures, or organising meetings, conferences and open day events that publicise the scientists work to the public. Helps to improve public engagement with science.

      ii) people who manage laboratories (ordering equipment, arranging maintenance and repairs, dealing with health and safety paperwork. Or people who manage and oversee clinical trials that test new drugs and treatments (again they deal with health and safety paperwork, record keeping, discussing and planning with medical doctors, nurses and scientists.

      Also, lots of people study a science degree but then work in other fields (finance, media, teaching) because you learn a lot of useful skills in science in addition to the actual science! For example, good writing and presentation skills, planning and organisational skills, how to research a problem and find information, computing skills, team-working, etc.

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      Joanna Giles answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      LOADS!

      I met a really interesting scientist today who is a psychologist of orangutans at Washington Zoo!
      I thought that was a pretty cool job in science! She was studying how orangutans think and work things out.

      I also have a very good friend who actually spends months at a time in the South Pole studying global warming.

      The possibilities are endless 🙂

    • Photo: Louise Walkin

      Louise Walkin answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      Yeah, the list is endless!! I remember thinking you had to be a doctor or a nurse – and didn’t really know anything else that you could be. I think all of the above have summarised them all pretty well! 🙂

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    Joanna commented on :

    Oh! One more thing! I visited the natural history museum in Washington DC today and I saw a huge display on the ocean. There are lots of scientists working on the what exactly is at the bottom of the ocean – I thought it was super exciting! Did you know that only 5% of the ocean is explored so far! That is tiny! We know more about outer space than we do about the bottom of the ocean – it’s fascinating!

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      jobibear commented on :

      WOW! Seriously?! That’s amazing. The reason I asked this question was because I REALLY enjoy science but I don’t know if there would be any jobs that I would enjoy. Thanks for all the ideas and info! 😀