ooh sounds clever
what sort of jobs will that lead to? What do you want to do?

There are adverts in a couple of newspapers over here enticing people to go over to Aus to be koala catchers, penguin house-builders and shark taggers. Want. Except the shark one. Sharks can fuck off.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 8:50, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

they totally want engineers in australia
me and the mrs could easily get jobs there. shame I have no desire to move to australia at all.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:02, Reply)

Vipros, meet Wiggy, you can both fuck off to Canada together.

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:05, Reply)

naa, I like it here
the weather suits me
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:07, Reply)

mate if you lived where I live the weather will suit you just fine.

(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:09, Reply)

but.....spiders!

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:13, Reply)

well it'll make me basically a Pathologist (the person who runs all the tests on samples taken from patients)
and if I get high enough marks, I can go on to study medicine at the same university to become a doctor. :)
Or I could go into medical or university based research.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:07, Reply)

aww I'm jealous of your foresight in getting a real career
it took me 24 years to realise what I wanted to do and it's such a bollocks subject.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:14, Reply)

I did biomedical science
And I did a placement in the big regional hospital shadowing a pathologist (although they're called biomedical scientists over here, a pathologist is something different) and it bored me to tears. Hence why I'm working in academia in a research lab - it's so much more fun. But each to their own, you may love working in a hospital. But I really can't stress this enough, GET YOURSELF SOME WORK EXPERIENCE. Even if you have to do it for free. It makes you much more attractive to potential employers and gives you a much better idea of what various jobs entail and you might change your mind entirely about what you want to do - when I started at uni I thought I wanted to work in a hospital. I really, really didn't, as it turns out.
(berk, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:44, Reply)

the university I've listed as my first preference has work placements as part of the requirements of 3rd year.
can't wait! so so excited.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 11 Aug 2010, 9:54, Reply)