• Question: what has been your favourite job

    Asked by alex to Philippa on 8 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Philippa Jefferis

      Philippa Jefferis answered on 8 Mar 2015:

      Hi,

      I have had quite a few jobs since I was 13. My worst job was clearing tables in a restaurant. Then when I was 18 I took a year out before university, working for an engineering consultancy. I was in the flood defence design team and that is when I truly realised how much engineering achieves and how important it is. I really enjoyed modelling how flooding might occur in a town, and so where we should build defences to contain the flood.

      I currently work in highways but I think longer term I will want to move back towards the flood management side of things. Especially as my home county (Somerset) has been badly impacted by flooding.

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