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Asked by Markimoo to Candace, Jenn, Matthew, Sahra, Sharon on 8 Mar 2017.
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Matthew Bainbridge answered on 8 Mar 2017:
After high school I went into microbiology. Then I decided I didn’t want to do micro for a living so I went into comp sci. THEN I moved to the west coast and the only people hiring were genomics people, so I really just fell into my job 😛
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Sahra Uygun answered on 8 Mar 2017:
I was interested in asking questions in genetics, investigating them and being in a laboratory. That’s why instead of getting an industry job right after college (I studied engineering), I aimed for graduate school and a research career.
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Candace Lewis answered on 8 Mar 2017:
When I started college I had no idea what I wanted “to do when I grew up”. The truth is, most people don’t know at that age and most Americans change careers many times throughout adulthood. In college, I took my first psychology class and fell in love with the field. A couple of years later I took my first neuroscience class and decided I wanted to be a neuroscientist. From there, I keep finding ways to study what I want to study. If you don’t know what you want to do yet – no worries – just keep learning and having new experiences. You will know when you know 😀
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Xueyuan Jiang answered on 8 Mar 2017:
I always loved biology and wanted to be a biologist. I feel like I’m simply chasing my dream : )
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Jennifer Hintzsche answered on 10 Mar 2017:
I fell in love with Biology by Junior year of college and added this onto my majors. I worked in a lab over a summer in college where I did a PH test every day for 40 hours a week and hated it. I decided to go to grad school so I could do a job where I got to use my brain. I started working in a brain cancer “wet” lab and wasn’t that good at it. But I was good at the microscope and computer aspect so I was encouraged to try a new field- bioinformatics. I realized it was a perfect fit for me and I excelled at it. The good thing is I worked with DNA which is in all living things. So I sequenced the petunia genome, found out evolution patterns of bacteria and now I get to work on cancer!
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