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Asked by boyer7 to Alan, Caspar, Murray, Sarah on 23 Mar 2011. This question was also asked by dj1234568.
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Sarah Thomas answered on 23 Mar 2011:
when i was doing my degree i had lots of part time jobs to help psy for my studies because my family could not afford to help me. i worked in a guesthouse, making beds and breakfasts, i worked in an Argos at the jewellery counter and i worked in a sainsburys in the clothing department, on the tills and i did night shifts stacking shelves!! before i went to uni i saved up some money working in a chinese takeaway, waitressing at a golf club and i also worked in a old lady clothes shop called Happit! i’ve had a lot of jobs!!
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Murray Collins answered on 23 Mar 2011:
I’ve been a photographer, and managed a small education conference company! But I still do photography now as a hobby, and also for recording any interesting species I find in the rainforest. 🙂
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Alan Winfield answered on 23 Mar 2011:
Well for most of my working life I’ve been an engineer not a scientist – I only really started to work on more sciency stuff in the last 10 years or so. As an engineer I have worked in industry, in fact I was one of the founders of a start-up company in 1984, called APD Communications Ltd. I worked there for about 8 years full-time, before coming to Bristol in 1992 to become a professor. The jobs I did at APD were managing director, and then technical director.
When I was a teenager I did lots of different jobs to earn extra money. Here are some of them: I worked as a shelf-filler at a local Tesco; I worked one summer in a factory doing semi-skilled metalwork, and for a number of Easter and Summer holidays I worked in an accountancy firm as a (very) junior clerk. This meant doing lots of adding up (and it was before computers and spreadsheets, so I had to do it all by hand).
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