• Question: what made you go down your chosen career path

    Asked by Kayla to Mark, Shruti, Faranak, Charlene, Alistair on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by femi :), 842mgrq44, 988mgrq44, 645mgrq39, GD.
    • Photo: Mark Bentley

      Mark Bentley answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Hi there.

      Pure luck……

      I was going to be a dentist when I was at school but had a really bad mountain bike crash and lost a few months of school.

      I left and got an apprenticeship as a tool maker and the rest has fallen into place.

      One thing I suggest is you push yourself out of your comfort zone, I have taken on jobs I had no knowledge about but it pushes you to learn and you grow from that.

      If you can fine a job that you love then that is even better.

      Hope that helps

      Mark

    • Photo: Shruti Turner

      Shruti Turner answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      It was quite a personal decision for me. I always loved science and maths and working out how things worked and solving problems, so engineering was a natural choice. Originally I chose to be an Aerospace engineering, because I wanted to join the RAF. So I started to work towards a career where I would work on aeroplanes.
      I then got a knee injury and had to leave the military, but no doctors could cure me. So, I looked at the science and mechanics inside my knee joints to see if I could work out what the problem was.
      From there I realised that I wanted to help people with my engineering skills and so chose to do medical engineering. The research I do currently is linked with the military: many of our soldiers step on bombs when deployed and loose their arms/legs. I am working to improve the artificial limbs that they get once their wounds have healed to allow them to be able to walk again.

    • Photo: Faranak Bahrami

      Faranak Bahrami answered on 14 Mar 2019:

      I wanted to work somewhere that does research since I started university. In research companies, you get to see and do many projects which are all unique and haven’t been done before. I didn’t want to go somewhere that I have to keep doing the same thing everyday. So when I saw the ad for the doctorate project which was sponsored by a very big and famous engineering research company I knew that’s what I want to do…No regrets, love it

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    676mgrq42 commented on :

    hiya mark. really pleased you fell of your bike 😉 joking, I am a bike rider myself and enjoy engineering. however I would like to go down the sponsored rider path but this is my second choice.