• Question: If you lost your job (which hopefully you ever will) What job would you like to do instead?

    Asked by phoebelovesbieber to Kirsty on 20 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Kirsty Ross

      Kirsty Ross answered on 20 Jun 2012:

      Fingers crossed that won’t happen for a couple of years at least. Unfortunately it is a hazard in science, as most jobs are on 3-5 year contracts. I have a plan to try and make it as a principal investigator like Austin. I’ve given myself 10 years from last year to do it. If I manage it, then brilliant. If not, I am happy to go and do something else!

      I’d like to either go into clinical trial research, where you help to take a medicine through human volunteers, or to develop my crafty business. I like making things like jewellery, hats, clothes and homemade vanilla essence and other things with a Scottish twist. Hopefully that might also provide a career. Nowadays there are no jobs for life, so you just have to be flexible.

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  • Photo: Austin

    Austin commented on :

    Not sure how much longer I’ll be a ‘Principal Investigator’, to be honest. I’m a lot more of a teacher than a researcher these days, and there is a push to ‘specialize’ people in my job far more into ‘mostly research’ or ‘mostly teaching’ tracks.

    If I wasn’t working in a University at all, I’d probably try and write a book or two. If I had to do something else as well as that to make money, technical writing / medical writing or translation would be my first thought.