Question: When you finished school, what was your first job and has it always been what you do now?

  1. My first job was working at a hardware store 🙂 I kept working there for 4 years while I went to uni. My first paid job as a scientist (I did quite a bit of unpaid work experience) was in a lab where I analysed water, soil and air samples.

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  2. My first job was at a sandwich shop when I started university. I didn’t stay there long as I found a great part-time job working as a carer with the Cerebral Palsy League. I spent the next four years helping a wheel-chair bound person in their home and assisted them in public. It was a great job and a great experience, and was really well paid compared to some other part-time jobs!

    My first job in science was when I finished university and I worked in a laboratory doing DNA sequencing. Scientists from across Australia sent our lab samples and we did the DNA sequencing and analysis and sent them the results back.

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  3. My first job was working at Lenard’s poultry shop. I worked there from grade 10 until I started uni. My first paid job as a scientist was working on cancer research where I worked with blood to look for changes in DNA in families who has a history of ots of cancer to see if they all had the same change, which might explain their increased cancer risk.

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  4. My 1st job post high school was being an electrician’s apprentice. This was so I could pay for petrol and school books for Uni. In the US, Uni is more of a pay as go system unless you have a scholarship or your parents could afford to send you. I did that for about 2 1/2 years. I am glad I did it though as the experience and knowledge has helped me later in life not only around the house but also in my job.

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  5. My first job was selling photocopy machines. That is what my dad does, so that is what I did for a summer after high school. Luckily, I did not have to do it too long as I left home to go to university. At university, I got a job as a programmer, then as a research assistant, and then a teaching assistant.

    My dad still sells photocopy machines!

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  1. thats cool

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