What do you want to do after the current stage in your careers?

Question: What do you want to do after the current stage in your careers?
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  career,
  stage
Asked by Kat to Anna, James, Joe, Leonie, Olivia on 6 Mar 2015.
- James Pope answered on 6 Mar 2015:
  
  Hi Kat,
  
  My contract at the British Antarctic Survey ends in April 2017. I would hope to get a job, in academic science at the end of this that would be on a long contract that would allow me to settle down. I’m getting married in 2016, and I know my fiancee would really like me to have some certainty about where I will be working!
- Joe Spencer answered on 6 Mar 2015:
  
  Hi Kat,
  Thank you for asking this as I am in the process at the moment of deciding this.
  When I finish my PhD (in a year) I aim to stay in academia, which is basically become a professional scientist. I have high aspirations and want to become a Professor someday. My current plan is to do a thing called ‘post-doc’ which is kind of an intermediate between a PhD and being a University lecturer. I’m thinking of heading to Harvard of MIT in America as there’s some people there that are doing really interesting work on carbon nanotubes (which is what i also do) I then think I’ll come back to the UK after a year or 2 and get a place at Cambridge University, as that’s closer to home and I’m pretty sure my Mum will happy with that.
  
  Thanks for reminding me to plan my life!
- Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes answered on 8 Mar 2015:
  
  I ask myself this question a lot! But it’s a hard one to answer. I’ll move to a different university in the fall, to a similar position that I’m holding now (post-doc). After that, I hope to get a more permanent contract at a university.
- Anna Ashton answered on 8 Mar 2015:
  
  I want to carry on doing Neuroscience research. At the moment I’m doing a PhD which is pretty much training to be a researcher.
  The next step is to work in a lab in a university as a ‘post-doc’, which is basically the name for a researcher who’s done a PhD but doesn’t have their own lab yet.
  I’d like to work to help find better treatments for brain diseases like Alzheimer’s disease.
- Olivia Lynes answered on 9 Mar 2015:
  
  I’m not sure! I’ve just started my PhD so I’ve got 3 years to do my research and decide if I want to stay in academia and continue researching, or if I will leave it to do something else. I really love researching but if something else comes along who knows I might do that instead.

Question: What do you want to do after the current stage in your careers?

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