• Question: How long did you plan to work as a engineer for?

    Asked by Dancefox to Oliver, Lesley, Leah, Hannah, Graeme, Aleks on 1 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Graeme Burt

      Graeme Burt answered on 1 Mar 2019:

      I did plan to do it until I retired, but now its until I die. You can tell engineering is a good job as many older engineers never really retire. My old boss retired almost 10 years ago but he still comes in to discuss engineering reserach and he just wrote a new book on radio engineering. Its just way too much fun to just stop.

    • Photo: Leah Morgan

      Leah Morgan answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Hi Dancefox 🙂 I plan to work as an engineer for as long as I enjoy it! Hopefully that will be a very long time… but I’ll definitely be interested in STEM for my whole life – once you start asking questions, it’s hard to stop!

    • Photo: Lesley Colquhoun

      Lesley Colquhoun answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I hope to be an engineer for as long as i can! When the world is always trying to improve itself, every day is a learning day and i have a thirst to know how things work! (mostly nosey!)

    • Photo: Hannah Griffin

      Hannah Griffin answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Not long really. I first had the idea in my final year of A levels. I then studied computing at university for 3 years plus 1 year (between years 2 & 3) working in industry on a sandwich placement. I went for interviews for my first graduate engineering job during my final year at university and started work just a week after my final exam.

      Other software engineers I work with knew what they wanted from a much earlier age and had therefore chosen more “traditional” subjects at A level e.g. maths and computer science.

      Most universities now offer various computing courses that can lead to a career in software engineering. This means not all universities require you to study the same kind of traditionally maths-focused subjects after GCSE in order to get into software development.

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