• Question: have you ever had a job before you became an engineer

    Asked by Tom to Fe, Joe, Lauren, Olivia, Pete on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Lauren Dransfield

      Lauren Dransfield answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Personally, I haven’t. I went straight from school to uni to my current job.

    • Photo: Felicity Harer

      Felicity Harer answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Just the standard job in a clothes shop before university and then a fairly random selection of part time jobs during my degree.

    • Photo: Olivia Stodieck

      Olivia Stodieck answered on 11 Mar 2015:


      Not really, but I did a few internships at Uni. For the first one, I worked as a aircraft technician, helping out with aircraft maintenance at an airport in France (would not really call it engineering, because you basically just follow instructions from manuals!). It was a good experience, because it made me realise why good engineering/design is important – some aircraft were really hard/expensive to maintain and repair and that was a sign of bad engineering …

    • Photo: Peter Roskilly

      Peter Roskilly answered on 12 Mar 2015:


      Various. In chronological order:
      Paperboy
      Corner shop clerk
      Part time factory worker (making bottle caps and cardboard boxes)
      Various roles in the administration department at large bank
      A Fryer/Supervisor at my local chip shop part time while at Uni
      Graduate Civil Engineer at WSP UK. (current)

    • Photo: Joseph Chilcott

      Joseph Chilcott answered on 20 Mar 2015:


      Yes, I worked in John Lewis as a sales assistant from when I was 16, but during my final year at Uni, I decided not to work and concentrate full time on my studies.

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