how hard is it to be in your position – I'm a Mathematician 2024/25

Question: how hard is it to be in your position
- Keywords:
  career,
  difficult,
  job
Asked by yerk522fees on 5 Feb 2025.
- Ruth McLauchlan answered on 5 Feb 2025:
  
  It takes quite a long time to get to my position with a combination of education and on the job learning but there are lots of different routes to get there. The most straightforward is by doing A-levels following by a degree and then getting a place on the NHS Scientist Training Programme. But there are routes opening up via apprenticeships. I have friends who have done all kinds of different jobs before and between working as a clinical scientist. So many of the skills of scientists and mathematicians are transferrable to lots of different things.

Question: how hard is it to be in your position