• Question: where do you think your work will take you in the next 5 years?

    Asked by Lauren turner to Huw, Gosha, Ray, Stacey, Steve on 10 Mar 2015. This question was also asked by lozzaaaaaa.
    • Photo: Stacey Cutten

      Stacey Cutten answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      For these two years I will be studying a Level 3 BTEC in Construction and the Built Environment. After that I will spend a further 2 years on my Level 4 and 5, before taking an optional 1 year top up to earn degree status. In 5 years I will only be 23 – which in terms of building a career, is still very very young! I will have earned a degree, but also have gained 5 years work experience on placements across the UK! 🙂

      So yes, I know the next 5 years sounds like a lot of boring work – but it’s from then that gets interesting! I hope to work toward chartered civil engineer status, working in the army reserves as a design engineering team officer. I would like to think I will stay with the same company but who knows what the future holds! I hope that I get to travel to other countries, after all, engineering is everywhere!

    • Photo: Gosha Barzowska

      Gosha Barzowska answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I wish to know! 🙂 for the next couple of years I am planning to finish my Degree in Aerospace Engineering Design (1st class of course!). My main objective is also to do as much events like this as possible to become a role model for young people like you – at the moment I am a STEM ambassdor in South West, and I do a lot of mentoring activities in local area. My apprenticeship also offers a full time job at the end so that is when I will start to build up my career. Very excited! So in 5 years time I see myself working abroad for Airbus (of course!) and getting into Flight Test where I could work on a finished product and do test on aircraft performance and make impovements for the future.

    • Photo: Huw Williams

      Huw Williams answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Hi Lauren,

      Well in 5 years time I’ll be 27 nearly 28 (oh dear…). At around that time I’d like to be in a team leader role, using my experience to help guide and focus other engineers working to complete a range of different project.

      I’d really like to travel as part of my job and Engineering is increasingly global, we’ve got new service centres opening up all over the world but I’d love to go Singapore, in Asia. 5 years is a long time so you never know what can happen!

      Huw

    • Photo: Steve Cox

      Steve Cox answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Hopefully into a lot of schools to show how powerful and amazing 3D printing is. After that it will be great to help shape what sort of things 3d printing gets used for.

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