• Question: If you could undo any event in your career, what would it be?

    Asked by Joe to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 14 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by BeckyJadeR, E_kelleher.
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      Andrew McKinley answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      That’s quite a scary thought – while the odd thing has not gone as well as I would like, given that I’m happy where I have ended up I don’t think I could honestly ‘undo’ any one aspect and still be where I am today! I am where I am because of things I have done – consequently I wouldn’t want to ‘undo’ anything!

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      Matthew Camilleri answered on 16 Nov 2014:

      Well, this is a very tricky question, and I believe that if I had to undo one event it would have changed my whole scientific career up till now.
      Having said that I am still utterly disappointed that I was advised not to do a double honours degree in Maths and Chemistry, so if I had to do something differently it would be the whole of my undergraduate course, changing it to BSc (Hons) Chemistry and Maths.

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      Rebecca Ingle answered on 16 Nov 2014:

      I think I’ve been fairly happy with my progress in my career so far, I love my current project and I think I’m on track for being able to get the future jobs I want to after that. However, there are weeks trying to fix problems that I wish I could just go back and tell myself the answers too so I didn’t waste loads of time! That would definitely make me a lot more productive as a scientist.

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      Laura Schofield answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I’ve been pretty lucky and already achieved my 2 dreams of working with Martyn Poliakoff and meeting my chemistry idol, Paul Anastas. So I couldn’t change anything that would lead me to that! I would perhaps have started writing up my thesis as I went along though as it seems a pretty scary task to sit down and do it now!!!

    • Photo: Francesca Palombo

      Francesca Palombo answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I don’t think I would undo any event – I am very happy to have made my decisions, which obviously would be very different if they were based on different previous events.

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