was it difficult to get into your particular area of work?

Question: was it difficult to get into your particular area of work?
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  job,
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Asked by imogen to Sharon M, helenabrown, Ester, Emma W, austejabakulaite, bethanyclarke on 21 Jun 2024. This question was also asked by puma1jazz.
- Emma Weir answered on 21 Jun 2024:
  
  I got into neuroscience because my university had a big department, so starting off it wasn’t too difficult. I’m now in my PhD and that took me about a year to get, because I was applying during COVID and there weren’t many funded projects about at the time! I did about 10 interviews

Eleftheria S commented on 21 Jun 2024:

It wasn’t too difficult and enjoyed the journey but it was time consuming for sure. I did my degree in Greece were I am coming from. The bachelor degree for Agriculture in Greece is 5 years. Then I continued with a Masters which again in Greece is longer than the UK and it took me 2.5 years. I had a short break and then I moved to Denmark for my PhD that lasted 3 years. I stayed there for 6 months working in a project and once this finished I started applying for jobs. I got the job of my first interview and it was a pernament one. I am at the same job since. This doesn’t happen too often in science but I guess I was lucky 🙂
thus499hawk commented on 18 Jul 2024:

thank you that was so intresting

Question: was it difficult to get into your particular area of work?