• Question: How hard did you have to qork in order to get where you are today?

    Asked by highe002 to Ben, James, Jen, Michael, Susanna on 11 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by cooldude, curlycaramel.
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      Michael Craig answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      Yeah, I’m sure all of us have worked pretty hard to get where we are now…and are still working hard! It is tough work at times but all the hard work is definitely worth it when you’re doing a job you love. Personally I found A levels the hardest out of all of my studying, they felt like a large jump from GCSE but once I got to uni I was studying something I enjoyed so I tended to work harder than when studying things I didn’t really enjoy during school.

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      Jen Todd Jones answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      Hi highe002

      I think it’s safe to say we all had to work pretty hard, getting to the level of a PhD means getting a degree first (which takes three years) with lots of high marks, then perhaps a Masters (another one year), or working in the real world and gaining experience that way.

      Generally you have to be pretty good at what you’re doing, for me that meant working hard to be better at maths since it doesn’t come naturally to me, and working well with people and understanding technology (both of which happily come easily to me). It’s not easy but it is extremely rewarding!

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      Susanna Martin answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      I think like the others have said we’ve worked really hard. That doesn’t mean we’ve all been top of the class though! we’ve worked hard at what we’ve enjoyed, talked to people to find out what we need to do to get what we want and applied ourselves. If you want to be a scientist you need to work hard, but don’t worry if you’re not an A Grade student you can still get where you want to be if you persevere!

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