• Question: Did/do you receive a lot of support from friends and family when you started your job?

    Asked by 449tema46 to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa, Pierre on 11 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Yes, and I still do! Although I had holiday jobs, my parents helped support me through university when I really needed them to, and then have been nothing but supportive of my decisions on what to do next.

    • Photo: Pierre Lasorak

      Pierre Lasorak answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Hello
      I think I did. The studies to become scientist are quite long and I was happy to be have this support. Also, I think my friends were not so surprised when I told them I wanted to do what I do. Now they are asking me about big bang and particle physics.
      But to be honest now I don’t see my family and French friends so often as they are in France! In fact there is a lot of expatriation in research, people often go to US, or wherever their experiment/things of interest is, and sometimes it is not in the most lively places… That’s ok we are here to do science anyway!

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Definately! My family helped me out a great deal through my studies and still now that I am in employment. The most help I get is with childcare. I always worked through my studies so I didn’t really need any financial help.

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