It is difficult to think of that. I don’t like to have regrets, but I do think about my early thoughts about becoming a medical doctor. However, I am glad that I didn’t. I am not so sure that I would have made it, but I am sure that I wouldn’t be having as much fun as I do now, as a collision investigator.
Apart from athhletics, in which I was never fast enough, then there is nothing else that I would wish to do.
I was quite interested in doing geology or archeology when I left school because I liked both history and geography as well as science. I’m quite glad how things have turned out though 🙂
When I first graduated from University I did sedimentology as a research job, travelling around the world (paid!) looking at ancient river deposits. After a PhD, I then did lots of geotechnical research, looking where landfills were leaking, where mineshafts might be located, where buried pipes were etc., before moving to forensic science.
I guess you could say I am on my third job already! And I still do some sedimentology and geotechnical jobs – my role isnt exclusively forensics as I dont get called that often to searches.
I have always trained, competed and coached acrobatics, so sports science was always interesting to me. I prefer however to do forensics as a career as I believe it is more important to society and more interesting.
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