• Question: do you do any other jobs?

    Asked by hayleighc to Will, Suze, Mike, James, David on 15 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by ayishae.
    • Photo: Mike Dodd

      Mike Dodd answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I’m currently organising a 2 day meeting to bring together young scientist in my field. It’s not really another job, but it is very different to what I do day to day. It means I have had to learn about advertising, finance and sending out lots and lots of emails (something I knew how to do beforehand). But apart from that, my PhD takes up a lot of time and pays enough, so I don’t need another job. 🙂

    • Photo: James Marrow

      James Marrow answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Full time Father

      (and if the other scientists think the questions this week are difficult, try having kids and dealing with their questions!)

    • Photo: Suze Kundu

      Suze Kundu answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Depends on what you call a job! As a PhD student, you can mark undergraduate lab reports for their lab courses, and you can be a demonstrator in the lab too. I have done lab marking, although I don’t trust myself to demonstrate to other people! I also invigilate some exams, which is all extra pocket money.

      Excitingly, I’m at BBC Science at the moment, working on a new series, doing some research for that. I’m also off to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology in July on an internship for a couple of months, to see what goes on there and get some work done in a completely different yet just as scientific environment.

      I can only do this now because I’m writing my thesis. I haven’t really had much time over the last three years to do anything else in terms of jobs, but as we get paid to do a PhD, it’s not so bad 🙂

    • Photo: William Eborall

      William Eborall answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Like Suze don’t really have the time to do another actual job. I do do some demonstrating from time to time. This is helping students at the university who are doing their degrees with their practical work. I really like doing that because I did my degree at the same university and remember struggling with the practicals! It’s nice to give them the answers to the questions I had when I was them.

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